Love? I'm reborn and I just want to get rewards

Chapter 373 My Gu Family is Not Done with You

Fights Break Sphere was originally planned to be the opening drama of the year for Penguin Video, but before they even started the promotional period, it was reported to have become a nationwide hit.

When the Northeastern brother was interviewed by the media, he listed five major crimes:

12000. The accounts of the production company were in a mess. A crudely made puppet prop was quoted at 20 RMB, but in fact it was worth less than RMB. The entire team worked together to enrich themselves and defraud small and medium-sized investors.

Gu Tonglin sold nearly 300 premium investment shares in total, and more than 200 people united to sue the crew.

2. The actor's contract violates regulations, and the producer pays the actor a salary that does not meet his or her value and takes kickbacks from it.

As soon as this crime was exposed, the main actors were immediately caught up in a wave of public opinion in which they were in a dilemma of neither proving themselves nor keeping silent.

This happened to be the period when the General Administration's salary cap order was at its strictest, and superiors quickly noticed the matter.

3. The production company is suspected of embezzlement and profiteering.

Lao Jiang and Xinli were in a state of panic.

4. As the pre-order party of the project, Penguin Video colluded with the production party, and the entire platform was rife with corruption, deceiving users and the general audience.

The blame was put on the penguin, and it began to examine itself.

100. The project fund pool is highly suspected of money laundering. Nearly investors whose interests have been damaged cannot be contacted and have not spoken out on the matter, which is very abnormal.

We urge the state to conduct a thorough investigation into this matter and crack down severely on the chaos in the industry.

It became popular, and it became very popular outside the circle.

Some of the marketing accounts have been controlled, and Weibo is also helping to reduce the heat, but this is not something that can be suppressed by one or two or three companies.

The influence of Tudou and Doupo alone in the online literature community is enough to spread this matter among the 4 million online literature users.

Coupled with the deliberate dissemination and promotion of this matter by the two major short video platforms, Kuaishou and Douyin, soybean meal has topped the list of various media indexes and remains at a high level.

Penguin had to postpone the launch time of Doupo, and then the onlookers found "new evidence".

“They don’t dare to go online!”

"It seems like there really was something wrong with the filming. It's rare to see a goose farm feel guilty."

"Lawyer's letter of warning!"

"Don't laugh, buddy, I posted a message on another forum and actually received a lawyer's letter."

"WCNM, my Doupo!"

The male book lovers were very excited and spoke out for Doupo.

In fact, if things develop normally, book fans may not necessarily watch the drama, or even pay attention to Doupo.

The attitude of the male group towards male IP has always been to ignore it, not watch it, and not talk about it. Only a very small number of people will take a look at it, then curse a few words and forget about it the next day.

But now, a mysterious force has turned the situation into a big drama, causing the new drama to receive more attention than it can bear.

Gu Tonglin was so anxious that he broke 8 cups in one day.

He spent 5000 million to buy Su Huai's shares, and the first advance payment for buying the navy was 2000 million, but it didn't last three days, so he added another 3000 million.

After spending 1 million in cash, although he recovered more than 3 million from the sale of shares, the money has been temporarily frozen by the judiciary, and it is still unclear whether he can get it back. In addition, his financial company has also been targeted by the China Banking Regulatory Commission.

"Fuck! What on earth went wrong?!"

He glared at everyone fiercely, his eyes as ferocious as a wolf.

The heads of all the relevant companies were present, and each one was more angry than the other.

"Director Yu, please explain. Where did that person get his evidence? Is it true?"

"Producer Jiang, is this how you manage the accounts?"

"Mr. Chen, how do you talk about Penguin Video?"

"Gu Tonglin! Why don't you look for your own problems? If you hadn't cheated them so badly, would it have become such a big deal?"

"What are you quarreling about? Things have already come to this. If you don't hurry up and find a solution, how can you get your money back?"

"Ha, you make it sound so easy! How do we solve this problem? Don't you know what the film will look like?"

"Director Yu and Producer Jiang, you must take full responsibility for the project!"

"I've tried my best anyway. It was like this when I was given the script, and then I stuffed someone in here and someone in there, and I just filmed it. Of course, you guys can come!"

"At this point, you're actually trying to shirk responsibility with me?"

"I didn't. Anyway, I made it with guaranteed quality and quantity. When it's released, the audience will prove it for me."

Director Yu Rongguang is somewhat desperate. He has seen the reality clearly. This incident has almost ended his career as a director. He will not have the opportunity to direct a big-name drama for many years. The most important thing now is not to take the blame, as he cannot bear it.

Tencent CEO Chen sneered: "The recruitment is all yellow, naked broadcast?!"

President Jiang collapsed in his chair in despair: "No one is left?"

Mr. Chen grinned sarcastically: "There is a sanitary napkin store that wants to use it. If you want to buy it, I will keep it for you."

"Grass!"

President Jiang slammed the table and yelled at Producer Jiang: "Who the hell did you offend?! Now they are rubbing our heads back and forth, and I still don't know what went wrong!"

Producer Jiang insisted: "I definitely haven't offended anyone. The crew is clean and we are all our own people. I think the problem must be with Mr. Gu. The initiators are all investors he deceived."

Gu Tonglin was not happy with the blame being put on him again and again.

"How did they know about the filming problems? If they hadn't noticed your poor filming, the show would have already been aired! Damn it, it's fine if you can't film the show well, but you can't even keep it secret?! Someone infiltrated the crew like a sieve, and you still dare to brag that you're all one of us?!"

There was a lot of noise, but in the end no rules were come up with.

"Forget about it. The circle is laughing at us now. We can't make a fool of ourselves anymore."

Everyone finally calmed down and started staring at each other.

"How to do?"

"Cold salad!"

Things have come to this point and everyone is in a dilemma.

The S+ dramas of major Internet companies have a fixed process. From promotion to launch to profitability, everything is already very mature.

The problem now is that the publicity and promotion have exceeded the limit, but the profit prospects are gone at first glance.

Under normal circumstances, for a large project like "Fights Break Sphere", no matter how it is filmed, it must be very easy to attract investment before the broadcast, and there will be countless businesses competing for advertising space.

The so-called pre-broadcast investment promotion means that before the series goes online, when the broadcast data is unknown, advertisers reserve the spot and place advertisements in advance out of trust.

According to special statistics, the star with the strongest investment attraction is Fei Xian, and the IP with the strongest investment attraction is Joy of Life.

The reason why Doupo didn't invite top stars and kept the cost so low was precisely because it had the title of the No. 1 male IP to protect it, so their initial estimate was very optimistic.

The eight major broadcast channels opened the way before the broadcast, with a guaranteed box office of 1.5 million.

This is the charm of big IP.

Before we started this project, the idea was to recover the production costs no matter what.

If the show goes well and becomes a hit, it will be easy to make hundreds of millions more from attracting new conversions, advanced screenings, and additional advertising.

If the broadcast is not good, buy some data, do some marketing, and appear on a few trending searches, and you can give an explanation to the higher-ups.

This is the basis for their mischief, as they think there will be no losses.

As a result, the show is now in vain. All businesses are waiting and watching, waiting for the broadcast effect before considering advertising.

So the project is facing the most terrifying situation - starting with a naked broadcast.

This means that advertisers have extremely little trust in the show and will examine the show’s data more critically. Even if the show is okay, there may not be many advertisements, and the price is the lowest among its peers.

That means... you are doomed to suffer heavy losses.

Mr. Chen rubbed his forehead and said, "Based on the current situation, the first few episodes and the data on the first day must have been very popular. The question is, to what extent can the average episode of the past trend of watching the excitement be stable?"

No one said anything, no one responded.

No one still has confidence in Doupo.

Xinli's General Manager Chang changed the subject abruptly: "General Manager Gu, you are the one who caused this incident. You have to take the responsibility and compensate for our losses."

Gu Tonglin was so angry that he slammed the table and stood up: "Now I am the one who suffered the most losses!" "Who didn't suffer any losses?"

Director Yu slammed the table and glared back at him.

Yeah, who didn’t lose?
Director Yu’s career as a director has basically been cut off, his reputation has plummeted to the bottom, and he won’t have any chances in the future.

Both producers also had their reputations ruined and were subject to audit.

As the producers, Yida and Xinli, Mr. Jiang and Mr. Chang will inevitably be held accountable by the parent company. Mr. Jiang will most likely resign early, and Mr. Chang will also lose the opportunity to compete for the championship.

Penguin is even worse off, with losses in goodwill, advertising, and drama promotions...it's hard to calculate.

Of course, from the surface, it was indeed Gu Tonglin who suffered the greatest loss.

If the contract that has been frozen by the judiciary is ultimately judged to be suspected of fraud and needs to be returned to investors, he would suffer a loss of more than 1 million yuan in cash.

The cost of 5000 million shares, 5000 million water army costs, and more than 1000 million sales costs have been paid, totaling 1.2 million.

What's worse is that because this incident attracted the attention of the China Banking and Securities Regulatory Commission, many previous investors from various Ponzi schemes came to him to settle their accounts.

Just responding to the lawsuit will take a while.

If some peers add insult to injury, how bad will the economy collapse? It's hard to say.

Anyway, my reputation is definitely ruined and it will probably be difficult for me to gain a foothold in this industry in the future.

Producer Jiang casually added to Gu Tonglin's attack: "Boss Gu, whoever is responsible should be held accountable. You bought the shares to start a financial business. There are more than 300 investors in total, 200 of whom sued you for fraud, and 100 of them suspected you of money laundering. This is ridiculous."

"Humph!" Mr. Chang also snorted coldly, and said sarcastically: "It's all because of you that things have become like this. You don't have the ability, but you have such a big appetite. Mr. Gu, you have caused a lot of harm to others!"

"you!"

Gu Tonglin was so angry that he was shaking all over, and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes.

Everyone was looking at him in unison, which could only mean one thing - they had reached a tacit agreement to throw him out to take the blame.

The Gu family is indeed awesome, but aren’t the other sides equally awesome when they get together?
He is just a marginal figure among the second generation of the Gu family and cannot represent the Gu family or the Gu Group.

So he suppressed his anger and tried to make another excuse.

“It’s really not me. There is nothing wrong with my contract and the sales process…”

"Not necessarily?"

Jiang Defu suddenly spoke up, saying quietly, "I checked secretly, and it seems that the investors you found are all Xingyu players? Where did you get the data from? Are you deliberately targeting Xingyu? Looking at the popularity that can't be reduced no matter how hard you try, is there a possibility... that this is really a personal grudge between you and others?"

Jiang Defu didn't mention who that person was, but everyone understood and became furious.

"Xing Yu?! No wonder!"

"Fuck, what are you thinking? Are you targeting other people's financial groups to cheat them?"

"ill!"

"I was wondering why it was so strange. How did those investors connect so quickly? They seem to be a family!"

"No wonder they were able to obtain such detailed evidence. I'm so damn unlucky!"

"what?"

Gu Tonglin was speechless and horrified at the same time.

Su Huai? !
Could it really be him?

In fact, Gu Tonglin did have some doubts, but after checking the daily battle reports sent by the water army, he did not find any evidence of the involvement of Xingyu’s core fans.

He could not help but bite the bullet and defend himself: "The social accounts of those well-known big brothers and well-known anchors of Xingyu have all remained silent on this matter. Why do you think that I offended Xingyu and that caused the counterattack?"

"if not?"

Producer Jiang asked back, "Besides you who messed around and offended President Su, who else would keep an eye on our project?"

Yes, there are no other enemies.

The business world is not a place for evidence. Business wars are mostly very simple. If the other party has both motivation and ability, then it can basically be confirmed.

Gu Tonglin still insisted, but everyone insisted that it was Su Huai who did it, and it was because you broke the rules first.

If no one wants to take on this responsibility, doesn't that mean someone has to take the blame?

But Gu Tonglin denied it to the death and refused to admit it.

"Impossible! He's my nephew's husband, we have a very good relationship!"

I can't admit it. If I admit it, I will have to pay a big loss, which will not only be a serious injury.

President Jiang didn't allow him to quibble, so he took out his cell phone and said to everyone, "I'll call President Su and ask him to show mercy. Of course, it may not work, as we are in the wrong in this matter."

Everyone agreed in unison: "Thank you for asking."

So Jiang Defu really called Su Huai's cell phone right away, and he was very straightforward at the beginning: "Hello, Mr. Su, excuse me, we are in a meeting here, discussing the mess at hand with Xinli, Penguin Video, Director Yu, Mr. Gu and others.

Brother, we are really at our wits' end, could you please help us?"

Su Huai's magnetic but cold voice came through the loudspeaker to everyone's ears: "What can I do for you?"

Jiang Defu was not playing tricks at all, and he rushed directly to his face: "I heard that those who were deceived were all players in your company, but I can guarantee on behalf of Penguin, Yida, Xinli, and the production team that we did not know about it in advance. This matter was purely the self-willed decision of some people, so can you please show some mercy? Let's settle the accounts separately and let the project go..."

"I do not know what you're talking about."

Su Huai chuckled, and then his voice suddenly turned cold.

"But if this matter cannot give me a satisfactory result, your next play, the next play after that, and even every play after that, it is best if there are no problems again."

Mr. Chen was furious and couldn't help but interrupt: "Mr. Su, let's not talk about the fact that every wrong has its perpetrator, and do you know who you are threatening?"

The phone was silent for a moment, and then Su Huai's voice suddenly rose.

"In my place, there is only collective punishment, not just the main culprit. You share the benefits, so naturally you share the consequences!

In addition, you cannot represent Tengxun, and Mr. Jiang cannot represent Yida, but I can fully represent Xingyu!
I'm not threatening anyone, I'm just stating a fact - as long as you want to stay in the entertainment industry, I'm the person you can't afford to offend, no doubt about it!"

"Crack!"

The call was hung up mercilessly and the room was filled with silence.

Gu Tonglin was stunned for a moment, then he was ecstatic: Good boy! Who gave you the courage to be so presumptuous? Are you okay now? We share the same hatred and the same enemy! You helped me out!

As a result, he was only happy for two seconds when the others suddenly turned their heads to look at him.

"Boss Gu, it's clear now. You are the one who caused all the trouble. You will bear all the losses alone. If you still want to deny it, we'll see you in court!"

what? !

Gu Tonglin was in a state of complete confusion, his eyeballs almost hitting his feet.

No, he threatened you! He wasn't just targeting me, he slapped you in the face!

Mr. Chang, Mr. Jiang and Mr. Chen certainly knew about it, but there was nothing they could do. Who said Xing Yu was really someone they couldn't afford to offend?

In today's entertainment industry, there is no company that is not afraid of Xingyu's group of fun-loving people.

It does not violate any rules or spread rumors, but it can cause a devastating blow to any artist or drama.

Reba Nazha has not received any high-quality projects or business for more than three months, and Qianqian, who is still being targeted, has not only been overwhelmed in the super topic and Weibo comment section, but even Sister Niu has been reduced to 1/3 of her previous level.

Producer Jiang looked at Gu Tonglin as if he were an idiot, and said sarcastically, "Boss Gu, when you were planning to cheat Xing Yu, didn't you ask around?
Do you think the commotion Xingyu caused a while ago only scared Tangren and Jiaxing?"

Gu Tonglin was at a loss: "Isn't it?"

Everyone shook their heads and sighed.

Jiang Defu said angrily, "I shouldn't have allowed you to come in. I thought you were in the same group as Xing Yu. Who would have thought you would bring in a pig..."

"Forget it, just broadcast it naked."

In the video, Mr. Chen stood up and left, leaving behind a meaningful sentence: "The remaining work is the responsibility of the legal department."

Gu Tonglin watched his comrades on the same front get up and leave one after another, and realized that things had finally headed towards an irreversible worst outcome. Suddenly, he let out a loud scream, picked up the tablet and smashed it down.

Su Huai!

I, Gu family, will never be done with you!
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(End of this chapter)