Huayu: When the director changed his major

Chapter 80 Do you think I can get bigger?
Cheng Xi slept soundly on Reba's legs yesterday and was fully recovered the next day.

Today is Thursday, and "Diaosi Men" is going to compete with "Report to the Boss" again.

This time we can basically see the future trend.

In the morning, Cheng Xi came to class obediently. Today's class was taught by Teacher Weng Yang on "Film and Television Project Planning".

Since winter vacation is almost here, the previous chapters including script creative planning, development, and production have been almost covered.

Now we come to the later chapter of "Project Promotion and Marketing".

This teacher is a famous beautiful teacher born in the 80s in the department.

Not only does she have a hot body, she also has a good academic background. She is a top overseas student specially recruited by the college.

After graduation, she worked as a producer for several years and published a monograph entitled "Film Marketing".

Now he has been brought back to the college to do teaching and research while serving as a producer.

Because she has both practical experience and a solid theoretical foundation, her lectures are very interesting and she gives many practical examples.

No wonder he has won many awards in the college’s “Teacher Speech Contest”.

While listening, Cheng Xi also connected it with his recent practical operations and gained a lot.

What Cheng Xi didn't expect was that the teacher also talked about the promotional battle between the most popular TV series "Report to the Boss" and "Diaosi Men" in the near future.

At this time, all the classmates were looking at him. The feeling of being stared at made Cheng Xi feel a little embarrassed.

Because the examples the teacher usually gave were those who had achieved success and fame, I never expected that one day I would have the same treatment, and the protagonist of the story was sitting below listening to the lecture.

This made all the students in the class feel dazed.

Is Cheng Xi about to become the kind of person the teacher describes?

We are all students sitting in the classroom, why do you stand out?

The teacher then commented on the pros and cons of both sides' approaches.

The details are also explained very thoroughly.

She even talked about some things that she hadn't even thought of.

Cheng Xi nodded repeatedly after hearing this. This teacher is indeed capable. Perhaps he will have the opportunity to learn from Teacher Weng.

So when the get out of class was over, Cheng Xi came to the podium, pretended to ask Teacher Weng a few questions, and then added the teacher's contact information.

Of course, Teacher Weng knew that this student who often didn't come to class was drunk.

Although Cheng Xi often did not attend classes in the department and basically did not participate in department activities, everyone was familiar with him.

In addition, Weng Yang has been studying Cheng Xi's marketing case recently and is preparing to write a paper based on it and publish it in a core journal.

It just so happened that Cheng Xi came over, otherwise Weng Yang would have taken the initiative to find "Teacher Zuibai" to learn from him.

After class in the morning, Cheng Xi edited two Weibo posts while having lunch with his roommates.

Welcome "Dance Champion" Jin Chen to the Zuibai family. @Jinchen@ZuibaiStudio@Reba@Zhangtianai@DiaosiMen's Official Weibo

Welcome "Xiantian Bathing Holy Body" Qiao Shan to join the Zuibai family. @Qiao Shan @Zuibai Studio @Reba @Zhang Tianai @Diaosi Men's Official Blog

Soon people in the studio also forwarded it and expressed their welcome.

Now Cheng Xi’s Weibo followers have exceeded 100 million, so soon there were comments from netizens.

[Holy crap, Xiantian bathing holy body! I've been unable to find an adjective to describe Teacher Qiao Shan's appearance. Now I understand. It turns out he is the legendary Son of Xiantian!]

[Hahaha, did you see today's commercial, "I've been drinking it since I was little"? It's such a brilliant idea! My mom saw it and immediately sent my dad downstairs to buy Coco Tree brand coconut water!]

[Daddy Zuibai, I'm a guy, and I'd like to ask if drinking Coco Tree coconut milk now is still in time to get bigger?]

Cheng Xi looked at the comments below and felt both amused and confused, but it was also quite interesting.

Netizens' imagination is truly endless.

Cheng Xi picked out a few interesting ones and replied to netizens.

Now everyone was even more excited to see Teacher Zuibai in person.

【Tie Tie Zui Bai Teacher】

[Child, you grow 1cm a year, so you will be 18cm when you become an adult.]

[Hahaha, brother, when you say that I really want to go back to my childhood! ]

It seems that everyone is very receptive to today's advertisement, which is good news.

Cheng Xi could only sigh that these advertising sponsors made a lot of money again.

As the 24-hour click count came out again, "Report to the Boss" became completely anxious.

Everyone is familiar with the classic movies and TV series that came before, but as time goes by, fewer and fewer viewers have seen them.

Coupled with the disadvantage in publicity, the initial leverage of "Wan Wan" has almost been used up, so the 24-hour playback volume of this new episode has dropped sharply to 80.

However, the income of Diaosi men is still around 250 million, showing no sign of decline.

From the initial lead to the current one-third of "Diaosi Men", this surprised both netizens and industry insiders who were watching the show.

I originally thought it would be a crushing victory, but after a week, I didn't expect that I would be crushed.

Is this what they call a loser who becomes the boss?

When Bai Zhongchun saw this result, he could no longer sit still.

Although Yi Xiaoxing has forbidden him from doing any more tricks, he still has "Report to the Boss" as his springboard, so how could he give up such a good opportunity so easily?

If Cheng Xi's "Diaosi Men" hadn't suddenly appeared, his plan would have succeeded long ago.

The thought of this made him even more angry, so he made up his mind and made several important calls.

For a time, news about the two dramas was flying all over the place.

Many newspapers and Internet portals used titles like "The Diaosi Man's Counterattack" to celebrate the outstanding performance of "The Diaosi Man".

But there are also several major media outlets that strongly criticized "Diaosi Men".

"To please viewers and netizens, many online dramas and short films these days are all about vulgarity, skirting the line constantly. The scenes of "selling flesh," voyeurism, and obscene jokes in "Diaosi Men" continue to captivate audiences. Liu Yan, with her low-cut boobs, long legs, and sexy lips, continues to stimulate the "hormones" of teenagers."

——Daily Review

"'Diaosi Men' not only betrays the sacred mission of culture and art and its social responsibility, but also fosters a fast-food culture, a bubble culture, and even a junk culture that is shallow but not profound, impetuous but not steady, slick but not humorous, and vulgar but not noble. We should fully resist it, rather than allow the culture of ugliness to prevail."

Then, some of the tabloids that had previously reported on the breakup of Mr. Zuibai continued to stir up trouble:
The vulgar content in "Diaosi Men" is a display of low-level culture, and it also indirectly reflects the nutrition that Mr. Zuibai absorbs in his daily life.

We may be able to get a glimpse into why Zui Bai fell out with his former partner over money and behaved disrespectfully towards his seniors.

The most important thing is that the higher authorities also said that they had recently received many reports about the vulgar and pornographic content of a certain "Men's" short drama.

It was stated that the drama will be reviewed as soon as possible and the subsequent results will be announced in the near future.

This time, although "Diaosi Men" broke the record in terms of clicks and had many supporters on the Internet, the mainstream media was full of negative reviews.

So Mr. Zeng could no longer sit still and immediately found Cheng Xi and Dapeng to discuss countermeasures.

"Everything was fine before, why did public opinion suddenly turn so one-sided? Is there someone who is jealous of us?"

Dapeng said this with some confusion, and hinted that it was "Report to the Boss" who was behind it.

Mr. Zeng also nodded, but no matter what the reason was, the most important thing was to solve the problem first, and the reason could be found later.

So he thought for a moment and said:
"We currently have two issues to resolve. The first is the primary issue of reporting. None of us can afford the consequences of having the product removed from the shelves. I'll report this to our boss, Zhang Chaoyang, shortly. He'll be much more effective in negotiating with higher-ups than us would be in a rush."

"The second issue is to resolve the public opinion issues in the mainstream media. One of them is on Mr. Zuibai's side, and the other is that we are vulgar."

Cheng Xi and Dapeng nodded after listening to Mr. Zeng's analysis.

Dapeng replied:

"Then I'll cut a few scenes from the next few episodes and try to finish editing them tonight."

Cheng Xi also replied:

"I have a way to clarify the issue. Lastly, we still need to see who is taking advantage of this. The sudden and unified attack, while there are some dramatic reasons, definitely involves someone behind it."

"Find him and kill him."

When Mr. Zeng and Dapeng heard Cheng Xi say this, they clearly felt his anger.

So after the three of them discussed the task, they each went about solving it.

When Cheng Xi returned to the studio, the first thing he did was to take out the video he had saved.

When he attended the banquet, he met this senior from the photography department who worked at Wanhe Tianyi.

He and Cheng Xi came to the crew of "Wan Wan" because of the introduction of teacher Cao Jinnan. Their main job was to shoot behind-the-scenes footage, do the work of a script supervisor, and learn at the same time.

After the filming, it was natural for me to join Wanhe Tianyi.

There happened to be a celebration banquet that day and everyone wanted to take some behind-the-scenes photos for record keeping, so this job was given to this senior brother.

He met Cheng Xi when he entered the door and they greeted each other.

So after Bai Zhongchun made the move that night, Cheng Xi found this senior brother and got the original copy of the video from that day.

It can be clearly seen that Bai Zhongchun deliberately asked Cheng Xi first, and then Cheng Xi answered frankly.

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that Cheng Xi was in trouble.

Cheng Xi edited the video from the moment Bai Zhongchun asked the question to the moment Cheng Xi left.

Then he posted it directly on his Weibo:
[I have always believed that the innocent will be cleared, so I did not choose to speak out after several unwarranted attacks.

But this time it not only affected myself, but also the efforts of everyone in the "Diaosi Men" crew and a group of lovely people who support me.

This is the video from that night. I think everyone will understand what happened after watching it.

As soon as the video was released, Weibo became lively.

(End of this chapter)