The battle for traffic in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 553 Xu Xing, let's get to know her. (The End)
2023 8 Month 14 Day.

The first stop of the "One Day" world tour is about to begin.

New Life Entertainment, the developer of "Starry Night".

"I give up! I give up! I'm completely done with this! Why do those fans keep dragging us into this mess? Why do the fans of a world-famous superstar have to pick a fight over a little game? I've been a fan for almost ten years, my sisters are beating my child, my aunt is beating my niece, they're all my flesh and blood! My heart is bleeding! Fans are truly the most incomprehensible creatures in the world! Please stop fighting!!!"

Li Chenxi, who was at her workstation, suddenly let out a wail.

"Pfft~"

"Hahaha!"

"Hahahaha!"

"Tearing it apart is healthier!"

"That means our Little Starry Night is a world-class game!"

The office was filled with laughter.

Li Chenxi was even more speechless.

"Can't you guys be a little more considerate? They're watching us and reporting us! If we don't have standards, we won't be competitive, okay?"

Although the fans of "Starry Night" were not afraid to fight back, spreading all sorts of dirt on Xu Xing...

This is so annoying!
Three months ago, "Starry Night" officially launched its open beta, and its global revenue exceeded 4 million RMB that month, causing a stir both inside and outside the industry. The company was overjoyed, and Li Chenxi was ecstatic.

The development took three and a half years. Starting from the first PV two years ago, we worked hard to build up our popularity in the otome game circle. Finally, we tasted the fruits of success. What a happy thing!
But controversy followed. Let's leave aside the issues of excessive content, plagiarism of character designs, and artists' career setbacks. Instead of playing dead, we should communicate more with players and handle the public relations issues.

The most ridiculous thing is that the jinx and the enemy's black PR team joined forces to stir up trouble, causing King Oyster Mushroom and Star Girl to fight each other.

First, Xing Xin, the female lead who became a business role model, had her resume of working at Zheng Rong exposed by smear campaigns. She was dismissed by Zheng Rong for dereliction of duty and even imprisoned for a year.

Then, when the timeline was compared, it happened to be 18, after Xu Xing's incident, and the "rumor" that Xing Xin was the one who fabricated the files of the 20 people from that year was rampant.

Although Zheng Rong's side immediately released a statement denying this claim, and stated that Xing Xin's mistake was unintentional during business negotiations, she still felt guilty for dereliction of duty, voluntarily resigned, and took the initiative to atone for her crime.

Meanwhile, some people claim that the real reason Xing Xin left was her relationship with Sheng Ke, who was suddenly sidelined at the time. Sheng Ke is an artist director, and fans of "Idol Producer" from back then have produced evidence that she followed the recording almost the entire time, and even released photos of Xing Xin and Sheng Ke together that were secretly taken back then.

But the king oyster mushrooms didn't buy it.

The logic behind Xing Xin's actions—the fabrication, the incident, her arrest, Sheng Ke's defense of her, and her subsequent ban—is quite complete.

Xiao Heizi continued to stir things up, saying that even if the 20 people's files had nothing to do with Xing Xin, there was still a possibility of a love triangle between Xu Xing, Xing Xin, and Sheng Ke.

— "Starry Night" is now known as "the first otome game for male players" because when its first month's revenue came out, the mobile game industry took notice. Many male players saw that the beautiful female CEO in the report was indeed pretty, so they couldn't help but download the game to show their support for the "older sister".

Fortunately, there is strong support for successful women online these days. Many KOLs and media outlets spoke out for Xing Xin, criticizing the fan circle's stalking of outstanding women, which triggered a large number of netizens' support and barely suppressed the storm.

Moreover, it can be considered a blessing in disguise, as "Starry Night" became a hit, generating nearly 6 million yuan in revenue in its second month.

However, while King Oyster Mushroom has stopped openly targeting Xing Xin, it hasn't let go of this mobile game.

The mobile game is called "Starry Night," and the fan club is called "Star Little Sister"... The whole world knows that the star elements that are everywhere in the game and community are trying to piggyback on someone else's fame. Why pretend to be innocent and pure?
There's also Xie Yaochen, one of the male leads in "Starry Night." His character is someone who lost both parents at a young age. He was a piano art student but didn't go to university for mysterious reasons. Now he's the young president of a Fortune 500 unicorn company. He's good at investing, has extraordinary abilities, clear eyes, and a warm smile, but he also has an inescapable, faint sense of coldness and aloofness.

Isn't this just another example of my luck being stolen?

Seeing the king oyster mushroom claiming sovereignty over all star elements, normal netizens felt it was incredibly idiotic.

...At least let Xu Xing change his name to Xu Xing first.

Most of the baby's breath felt that they were too embarrassed.

However, a small group of crazy king oyster mushrooms are all over the internet.

Xing Xiaomei's fearless retort also ignited the anger of some of the onlookers.

The conflict between the two sides has escalated significantly this month. If this continues... we'll have to get Wang Yu to intervene when she returns from Sister Xin's office!

"What can we do then? Even if we apologize, they won't accept it. Or, Sister Xi, when you go to the concert today—"

"Sister Xi, you really did have tickets!!!"

"Sister Xi, please be my sugar daddy/sugar baby!!!"

"I really, really, really love king oyster mushrooms! This is the most important day of my life, but I can't get a ticket!!!"

The office instantly erupted in excitement.

Li Chenxi really... as soon as she looked up and saw Wang Yu, she immediately went into the office and quickly made hand gestures.

The office fell silent instantly.

Wang Yu pushed open the glass door and walked in, coldly sweeping her gaze over her hardworking employees, and gave up on her plan to reprimand them.

It's almost time to leave work, so there's no need to be too tense in the operations work environment.

After scanning the room, Wang Yu left the office without sitting down, and Li Chenxi quickly followed her out.

"We agreed to go together in a bit!"

"Ah."

Wang Yu nodded.

Li Chenxi smiled with relief.

"That's good. Lili will definitely be very happy. Her current girlfriends are really interesting; they've been saying they wanted to meet you for a long time. I hope Sister Xin won't have any extra work to do tonight!"

“Of course, this is Xu Xing’s concert,” Wang Yu said with a slightly sarcastic smile. “Don’t you know that she and—”

"And what?"

Li Chenxi asked Wang Yu, who had suddenly stopped.

Wang Yu sighed, letting go of the aggressive attitude she had adopted after being mistreated in Xing Xin's office, and gently patted Li Chenxi's shoulder with a touch of melancholy.

“It’s nothing. I also think she should relax and not be too busy every day. It’s been a long time since we got Xu Xing’s concert, the only chance for her to put everything down.”

I don't know what the funniest thing in the world is, but it's really funny to work day and night only to find out that you're making money for the person who sent you to prison.

Wang Yu only realized today that she had been kept in the dark.

Xing Xin has been enjoying this for almost four years. The success of "Starry Night" finally earned her Xu Xing's approval, allowing Xu Xing to fulfill the reward they had agreed upon.

Should we tell Li Chenxi all this? Tell her that the seemingly carefree, independent, composed, insightful, and stable older sister in her eyes is actually a weirdo who secretly loves domineering CEO novels and whose values ​​are twisted beyond recognition?

...In fact, the fact that she deliberately infiltrated the company to collect files on 20 people shows that Xing Xin is not normal.

Xing Xin, who was in the office just now, was particularly smug, saying that her life was in its best state, and that Xu Xing had pushed her to strive to become better at the two most important junctures in her life.

Hehe~ One of them was to send her to prison, hahahahaha~
Although Li Chenxi has grown a lot in the past two years, she probably still finds it hard to accept that her cousin is so real.

Wang Yu is not like them, who can't even get over a celebrity; going to a concert is simply a way for her to relax.

"Oh yeah, hahaha! Sister Xin is actually quite loyal, I only recently discovered that."

Li Chenxi laughed, then suddenly remembered what had just happened, and the topic quickly shifted back to work.

"The king oyster mushrooms are tearing at us more and more fiercely now, what should we do!"

"Don't worry about it. There will be reports in a few days that Xinsheng Entertainment is an investment of Xu Xing."

"Oh—ah? Ah? Ah, ah???? The rumors are true?! Sister Xin kept this from me for so long!!!"

"Otherwise, how could she have produced so many internal tickets at once, even tickets for Li Lili and her girlfriends? It's almost time to get off work, hurry up and change your clothes, it takes half an hour to get to the Bird's Nest."

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

Inside the Bird's Nest, spectators have begun to enter.

"A paparazzi revealed that a top female celebrity has been out of the public eye because she went to have a baby! Many netizens are guessing it's Dilraba, and even that the baby is Xu Xing's! Baby, what do you think?" Xia Mo asked.

Bevido smiled.

"They'll let me know if they really mean it."

"Not upset?"

"What's wrong with me being sad if it's fake? After Dilraba joined Zheng Rong, she no longer rushed around almost all year round like before with Jia Xing. They started spreading rumors two years ago, but Alice has calculated it many times, there's no way she could have time to have a baby. When the haters see that Dilraba is now well-rested and no longer looks tired, and is getting more and more beautiful every time she appears, they are so anxious that they make up all sorts of rumors."

"Really going to be sad? Beibeibao, shouldn't the CP fans be overjoyed?"

Li Lili chimed in from the side.

“…I’m so happy,” Bevido nodded with a smile, then suddenly pointed to a spot not far away, “Hey, Lili! Yoona! She’s here too!”

Several people looked over at once.

"It's true!" Ina Wen was the first to speak up. "Lili, your best friend's connections are amazing! We're so close to the celebrities!"

"Lim Yoona actually came!" Xia Mo exclaimed in surprise. "Xu Xing and she really have—"

“So many Korean celebrities are here,” Li Lili interrupted her impatiently. “Today, there are quite a few celebrities from Southeast Asia, Europe and America. I’ve seen a whole bunch of them. Many celebrities couldn’t get tickets for the inner field, so they had to buy their own tickets to sit in the stands.”

"Are those... Son Ye-jin and Jin Du-lin next to her? What a strange combination!"

Beviedo asked, somewhat uncertainly.

“It should be,” Li Lili nodded. “Momo, try to be more positive! Could it be that Son Ye-jin and Xu Xing have something going on? If that’s the case, then Xu Xing is one of all the women in the entire Bird’s Nest today—”

"Stop making fun of my Lucky Baby!" Ina interrupted. "It's about to start, when is your best friend arriving?"

"I just said we'd arrived and were parking. The main issue is that you insisted on having the first show on a Monday. What's the significance of that day? Is it with him and some woman—"

"Li! Li! Li!!!"

“11 Bao, Lili Bao has such a good ticket, even Bei Bei Lao can’t get it, can you let her have it?”

"No way! No way! No way!"

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"The traffic is so bad, are we going to be late? Sigh, I should have gone with Xiao Zhen instead of waiting for you."

Zhen Wei sighed and looked worried.

Xin Youqing gave her a blank look.

"You have a problem with me taking care of my daughter? You're not even a fan of Xu Xing, and I'm not worried, so why are you?"

"...No objection. I was just worried that you wouldn't see this, Qingbao. Do I still need to talk about fans with Xu Xing now? Qingqing, really, you're not as gentle as you used to be."

"Um, is there any?"

"Yes, but she's even more beautiful than before, and her figure is even better," Zhen Wei laughed. "It makes me want to have a child myself."

"you……"

Xin Youqing hesitated for a moment.

Zhen Wei smiled.

"Sun Man really did get married during her week-long holiday for the Spring Festival!"

"Maybe. But when I asked, she said no."

"Didn't you ask Xu Xing? Xu Xing never lies."

"There's no need to ask!"

"Then why are you asking Sun Man?"

"..."

Xin Youqing pouted.

Zhen Wei blinked and changed the subject.

"Qingqing, you have to be honest. Li Sisi has already left CCTV and just signed with Xingyu. So, did you and Ma Fanshu betray me together?"

"Absolutely not!" Xin Youqing glared at her. "I can see that you've made up your mind, but you don't want to admit it yet. Anyway, Aunt Zhen has no objection, so we'll just find a time."

Just as Zhen Wei was about to retort, her eyes glanced out the car window, and her words changed before they even left her mouth.

"Hey, all those people who got off the bus and ran are going to the concert, right? There are only 40 minutes left before we can't get in. Should we get off the bus and run there together?"

"Okay—uh, can I run that far? There's still... about 5.5 kilometers left."

"It's hard to say. When we first entered university, we probably could. We both ran 800 meters in about 4 minutes in our physical fitness tests, right? 40 minutes is 8 kilometers."

"Huh? How could you possibly keep running that fast? I feel like back then, if I had pushed myself to run for 40 minutes straight, I could definitely have covered 5.5 kilometers. It's just that I was thinking about Xu Xing ahead of me, while you were thinking about Chris Wu ahead of you—"

I don't want him!

Zhen Wei was very dissatisfied.

"Ok."

Xin Youqing laughed; she said it that way on purpose.

"We definitely can't run that fast now. It's so hot outside in the middle of summer, and we'll be even slower. What if we run for a little longer and get heatstroke?"

"That's true, then there's nothing we can do. We probably won't make it. Why didn't you give him any feedback? Why did it have to be Monday?"

As Zhen Wei complained, she rolled down the car window completely, letting in the scorching summer air.

The next second, a T-shirt with Xu Xing's image on it flew past the window.

Xu Xing's profile picture kept flashing by one after another.

They should all be from the same fan group.

Many people were running while shouting encouragement to everyone, even though they were panting.

"Only 5 kilometers left! Come on! We can make it! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! We'll regret it for the rest of our lives if we miss it!!!"

"Thank goodness I'm here!!!!"

"Xu Xing!!!"

"I'll die today! I'll die in the Bird's Nest!!!"

"rush!!!!"

"Charge!!!"

"Xu Xing ahhhhhhh!!!!"

……

Zhen Wei, whose eyes suddenly welled up with tears, turned around and saw Xin Youqing beside her already shedding tears.

"Whew! Xu Xing! Whew! Let's learn about her!"

The poster flew in through the car window, and Xu Xing's panting image was already hurtling into the distance again.

(End of the book)

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