The Entertainment Industry in Turmoil: Young Actresses All Want to Rise to the Top

Chapter 329 Dad and Mom

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After packing up, Shen Mo and Bai Lu set off first to the filming location of "Running Man".

After a short rest, Li Lin regained her cool and elegant demeanor and rushed back to the "White Deer Plain" crew.

Filming for "White Deer Plain" has entered the final half-month sprint stage. If it weren't for the Magnolia Awards, the director team probably wouldn't have released her so easily.

Li Lin auditioned for this drama herself, hoping to build her confidence for awards. However, now that she might win the Magnolia Award for "Nirvana in Fire," it doesn't seem so important anymore.

After finishing filming "White Deer Plain", she will immediately start filming "The Legend of Chusen", a top commercial IP that Shen Mo secured for her.

To apologize to Shen Mo, Huanrui gave up the female lead role of Lu Xueqi to her, and replaced the male lead with Zhang Ruoyun, who has both acting skills and a good reputation.

For Li Lin, this smooth transition from period dramas to beautiful fantasy dramas is exactly the path of "gaining both fame and fortune" that Shen Mo planned for her.

Meanwhile, on the set of "Running Man".

Although Shen Mo's decision was impromptu, when he appeared in front of the camera, the entire staff still treated him with the utmost respect.

Shen Mo didn't put on airs like a boss; instead, he displayed a strong sense of variety show humor.

Whether it's the mini-games in the first stage, the mud pit battle in the second stage, or the final name tag ripping game, his effortless and relaxed demeanor makes the originally set script even more vivid.

"Your brother Mo's athletic ability is just too unfair!"

Sha Yi watched as Shen Mo easily dodged the encirclement and suppression by Li Chen and Zheng Kai, and couldn't help but look at Bai Lu and complain.

Shen Mo merely raised an eyebrow, his gaze casually sweeping over Bai Lu, who was laughing without any regard for her image, and said with a meaningful smile.

"I can't help it, I got up early this morning and had a great workout, my physical strength and energy were successfully warmed up!"

Bai Lu's laughter stopped abruptly. She stared at him blankly for a second, then gave him a thumbs up.

In fact, Bai Lu was also in a state of high excitement today.

She no longer cared about the image management of female celebrities, and her signature hearty laughter came one after another.

Perhaps because Shen Mo was right beside her, she seemed to have gained a combat buff, continuously outputting energy.

Moreover, taking advantage of the promotion of "Love O2O" in this episode, Bai Lu's eyes seemed to be filled with stars whenever Shen Mo appeared on screen.

This natural chemical reaction prompted the screenwriters behind the camera to record it frantically.

"This moment of eye contact absolutely must be included in the cut!"

"Isn't this a million times better than those industrial saccharin flavors?"

"Is there really no talk about this?"

The production team was initially worried that Shen Mo's status as a top star would make the other guests feel uncomfortable, but unexpectedly, Shen Mo not only had fun himself, but also accurately delivered words and caught jokes to Bai Lu.

The two, one quiet and the other lively, one domineering and the other charming, turned an outdoor competition program into a large-scale dating reality show, contributing countless memorable moments that were enough to ignite trending topics.

After finishing the recording of this episode, Shen Mo returned to the capital amidst Bai Lu's reluctant farewell.

Instead of returning to the company first, he went directly to the set of "Soulmate".

Just as he reached the door of the lounge, a little girl wearing pink overalls and with two pigtails wobbled out and bumped right into Shen Mo's leg.

Shen Mo's heart softened, and he squatted down to gently pinch the chubby little face, teasingly saying...

"Hey, where did this little mythical beast come from?"

"Who are you?" The little girl tilted her head, her big, dark eyes filled with curiosity.

"I am—" Shen Mo was about to speak when Li Yitong stepped out.

Upon seeing Shen Mo, she smiled radiantly, stepped forward, and scooped the little girl into her arms.

"Sweetie, this is your Uncle Mo."

"My daughter, what do you think? Isn't she adorable?"

After saying that, she looked at Shen Mo with a mischievous glint in her eyes and deliberately teased the child in her arms, "Good boy, call me Mommy."

The little girl hugged Li Yitong's neck and spoke in a soft, sweet voice.

"Mother!"

"Sigh!" Li Yitong smiled, her eyes crinkling, and the gentleness she exuded in that instant made Shen Mo momentarily lose his composure.

Shen Mo glanced at the lollipop that Quan Quan was holding next to him, and an idea came to him.

He casually lit a cigarette, waved it in front of the little girl, and tempted her in a low voice.

"Sweetie, call me 'Daddy,' and this lollipop is yours, okay?"

The little girl's gaze was instantly fixed on the lollipop, and she couldn't maintain her composure for even half a second, letting out a sweet shout.

"dad!"

"Oh! Such a good girl!"

Shen Mo shamelessly agreed, his eyes full of triumphant smiles.

Seeing Shen Mo's shameless behavior, Li Yitong laughed even louder.

This harmonious scene of a family of three clearly provoked the person next to them.

Tian Xiwei was leaning against the door with her arms crossed, her sweet face filled with displeasure.

She puffed out her cheeks, her big eyes blinking as she stared at Shen Mo, her tone tinged with jealousy.

"You really know how to take advantage of people!"

Shen Mo noticed the hint of jealousy in her eyes. He took the little girl from Li Yitong's arms, walked towards Tian Xiwei, and handed the little girl a lollipop with a mischievous grin, pointing at Tian Xiwei.

"Sweetie, there's one more task. If you call this person 'stepmother' too, this candy is yours."

"Pfft—" Li Yitong laughed so hard she couldn't straighten up.

Tian Xiwei's face instantly turned pink, and she made a move to hit him.

"Shen Mo! Are you trying to establish seniority here?"

The little girl was quick-witted; seeing Tian Xiwei's delicate face, she changed her tune just as fast.

"Mommy! Beautiful mommy!"

The word "Mom" instantly touched Tian Xiwei's heart, and her icy facade crumbled, her lips curving into a wide smile.

She snatched the lollipop from the little girl's hand, unwrapped it, and stuffed it back into the child's mouth, laughing and scolding.

"I'll let you off this time for the sake of the child."

At this moment, the child's biological mother came over and explained with an embarrassed expression.

"Mr. Shen, this child plays Mr. Li's daughter in the play, and they're very close off-screen too. I'm sorry you had to see that."

Shen Mo handed the child back to the other person. "What's the child's name?"

"Liu Jiaxi".

Shen Mo looked at Liu Jiaxi's charming face and smiled slightly.

"This child is very bright and has a very outgoing personality."

"If you want her to develop in this industry in the future, you can register her in Mohen's trainee pool. We have a special child star planning path."

The child's mother was stunned, then her eyes lit up with ecstasy.

What is Mohen? It's the star-making factory of the Chinese entertainment industry.

Shen Mo's words were tantamount to handing this child a ticket to the pinnacle of the entertainment industry.

"Thank you, Mr. Shen! Thank you, Mr. Shen!"

The child's mother bowed repeatedly, then quickly left with Liu Jiaxi in her arms.

Liu Jiaxi, perched on her mother's shoulder, watched the three figures recede into the distance, then suddenly waved her little hand excitedly and shouted aloud.

"Goodbye, Dad! Goodbye, both Moms!"

Shen Mo, Li Yitong, and Tian Xiwei were all stunned for a moment, then simultaneously raised their hands and gave a bright and knowing smile to the departing figure.

Until Liu Jiaxi and her daughter disappeared from the doorway, an indescribable atmosphere filled the air.

Li Yitong was the first to react. She glanced at Shen Mo sideways, her eyes filled with a hint of teasing.

"Mr. Shen made a worthwhile deal! In less than five minutes, he gained a daughter and two wives, and the cost was only one lollipop."

Shen Mo touched his nose, then took the opportunity to put his arm around Li Yitong's shoulder and chuckled softly.

"Isn't this all thanks to Sister Xue? Without you as her mother, how could she call me Tian'er?"

Li Yitong playfully slapped his hand away, but her gaze swept towards Tian Xiwei beside her.

Tian Xiwei was looking down, her toes kicking the ground absently. After the joy of being called "Mom" by her child faded, the awkwardness she had felt from her long-term cold war with Shen Mo resurfaced.

"I wouldn't dare accept that."

Tian Xi spoke in a muffled voice, her tone tinged with obvious bitterness.

"Sister Tong is the main character both on and off screen. What kind of mother am I? At most, I'm just a pretty older sister."

That tone is so sour, it could be used to dip dumplings in.

Looking at her prickly little face, Shen Mo felt both amused and heartbroken.

Li Yitong, seeing through the deception but not revealing it, gently pushed Shen Mo.

"Alright, stop trying to get my attention."

"I'll go talk to the director about the next scene. You can handle the rest yourself."

After saying that, she moved closer to Tian Xiwei and pinched her cheek.

"Tian'er, you need to keep your emotions under control during that scene. Don't let any uninvited guests disturb your concentration. I'm going now, I'll wait for you."

Li Yitong turned around gracefully, left with several assistants, and left the lounge alone for the two of them.

The door clicked shut.

Shen Mo took a step forward, and Tian Xiwei subconsciously tried to back away, but Shen Mo quickly grabbed her arm.

"Still trying to hide?" A teasing look appeared on Shen Mo's face. "Wouldn't calling her 'Mom' have been pointless then?"

"That's what the child calls, not you—" Tian Xi looked up and glared at him with a cold expression.

"Ah! So, you want me to call you that too!"

Shen Mo suddenly interrupted her, a hint of mocking darkness flashing in his eyes.

Without warning, he leaned down, his nose almost touching her cheek.

"It's not impossible."

Tian Xiwei stared at him with wide eyes, looking at him in disbelief.

Before she could react, Shen Mo's breath brushed against her earlobe, and a word jumped directly into her eardrum.

"Mother----"

Tian Xiwei's face instantly turned red to her ears, and she felt as if she had been electrocuted.

Shen Mo didn't give her a chance to breathe, and directly captured those delicate red lips in his mouth.

She had symbolically patted his shoulder a few times, but the force quickly dissipated under Shen Mo's storm-like onslaught.

In the end, it turned into a helpless clinging, with fingernails scratching fine wrinkles into the back of Shen Mo's shirt.

After a long while, Shen Mo finally pulled away a little, looked at the girl in his arms with dazed eyes, and grinned mischievously.

"So, Tian'er likes this kind of thing!"

After saying that, he pulled her directly into his arms, resting his chin on the top of her head, feeling her body slowly go from stiff to limp.

Tian Xi struggled a couple of times, but her strength was so weak it was almost like flirting. In the end, she simply buried her face in his chest.

LeShi's stock price has been trading sideways for several days. Each day, it dips slightly after the market opens, but is barely pulled back up at the close, with trading volume shrinking day by day.

The market capitalization has stalled at around 1500 billion, neither rising nor falling significantly.

In Shen Mo's office, three screens were placed side by side in front of him.

On the left is the real-time intraday stock price chart of LeShi.com, in the middle is the financial news aggregation page, and on the right is the public opinion monitoring dashboard sent by Lin Wei.

The data collected from the online comment sections of LeShi shows that most of the comments are from LeShi's various projects' paid promoters constantly refreshing with "expectations" and "good luck".

In the public opinion monitoring chart, green represents positive sentiment and red represents negative sentiment. At this moment, the two colors are slowly approaching the intersection point.

Positive voices are waning, while negative voices are gaining momentum.

Shen Mo placed the stylus in his hand on the table, making a slight crisp sound, and then pressed the hands-free button on the landline.

"Have Zhao Feng come here for a moment."

Shen Mo waited for Zhao Feng to sit down in front of him, and without any pleasantries, went straight to the point.

"LeShi's stock price has basically reached its peak. It has been trading sideways for four days now, and the trading volume has shrunk by almost 40%. The money in the market that is willing to buy has almost all entered the market."

He gently patted the table.

"It's time."

Zhao Feng's eyes lit up instantly; he had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

He opened his laptop, connected it to the projector in Shen Mo's office, and the intraday chart of LeShi.com was projected directly onto it.

Compared to Shen Mo's simple candlestick chart, his table contains many more analytical indicators, and most importantly, it has several horizontal lines drawn on the rising stock price candlestick chart.

Zhao Feng pointed to the horizontal lines and explained.

"Currently, we have established short positions worth over 15 billion yuan at these price levels, and the current unrealized loss is around 2 million yuan."

Shen Mo turned to look at him, "How much of the remaining short selling funds are you prepared?"

"There's still 20 billion left!"

Shen Mo pursed his lips. "Not enough. This amount of money won't make much of a splash in this 1500 billion market."

"Go and prepare another 20 billion today."

"Then, we contacted several CEOs from Jun'an, Zhongxin, Zhongjin, and Huatai, shared some of the information we had collected, and told them that the car was about to start, and whether or not they got on board was up to them."

Shen Mo knew that it would be quite difficult for him to achieve his goals on his own, since there were also many large institutions among LeShi's investors.

Mohen has been in this industry for several years and has established some collaborations and interactions with some institutions and big names in the financial circle.

If we don't inform them and start the operation directly, they might join forces to suppress the ink stains and escape safely, even if they know the true operational situation, all for their own benefit.

However, if they are informed in advance, the reversal of these organizations' actions will cause more damage than a direct attack by Inkmark.

Don't assume that investors in the financial sector and the companies they invest in have any deep connection, or that they would knowingly help the companies struggle financially.

They only complain that they aren't running fast enough or stomping hard enough.

However, Shen Mo was not worried that their preparations would surpass his own, given that it was only a day or even less.

Mr. Jia, get ready for the storm!

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