Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 791 Mysterious Code
The couple looked a little embarrassed as they were surrounded by a group of people like national treasures.

Seeing that the wedding dress style had been finalized, Liu Yifei said, "That's it. Let's go back and get it ready and go look at the house later."

Having said that, she pulled Chu Xuan away, the hem of her wedding dress fluttering in the wind, as she fled away from everyone's teasing gazes.

After taking a shower, washing up and changing into normal clothes, the couple worked together to wash and dry the clothes and blankets, then went to their mother's room to have breakfast. The whole family accompanied their aunt-in-law to go house-hunting in the mountain and sea view villa park.

“The environment here is really nice.”

"Indeed."

Liu Xiaoli and her aunt were walking and chatting in front, while Liu Yifei followed behind with Chu Xuan's arm around her.

"The environment here may not be the best in Shenzhen, but I guarantee it is one of the best."

Real estate developer Dong Yonggui came to greet them in person, and the big boss was very enthusiastic.

In fact, during the first transaction with Chu Xuan some time ago, after a brief communication on the request to join the movie theater chain, he went to Beijing to visit Wang Jinhua in person. The two reached a preliminary consensus on cooperation matters. Although the cooperation has not yet been confirmed and both parties need to understand more, the situation is developing well and only awaits further discussion.

Under such circumstances, Mr. Dong was naturally very polite to the other two bosses of Brilliant Times, their spouses, and their families.

"There's a big hotel right at the doorstep, which is quite convenient. When the time comes, Xiaoxuan can go out on horseback to pick up the bride, and then Xixi can take a sedan chair from the hotel to here without any effort, and there's no need to occupy a major public transportation route. This is very easy to arrange and manage."

"You also need to ride a horse or a sedan chair..."

Hearing her aunt's words, Liu Xiaoli laughed and turned to look at the couple with interest.

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei couldn't help laughing and looked at each other. In each of their eyes, there was longing and anticipation for next year's wedding.

Dong Yonggui, who was accompanying them, was stunned for a moment. Riding a horse? Riding in a sedan chair? Welcoming the bride? He suddenly realized what was happening, put on a smile and started to congratulate them: "Boss Chu and Boss Liu are going to buy a house and get married?"

He clasped his fists and said, "Congratulations!"

Liu Xiaoli smiled and said, "Boss Dong, can you give me a discount on the house?"

"Of course! It can also be considered a gift to President Chu and President Liu." Dong Yonggui waved his hand seemingly generously, but in fact he had the intention of deepening the interest bond with Brilliant Times Cinemas.

Everyone came to the villa, talking and laughing. The aunt-in-law immediately exclaimed, "It's so big! My God! How much does it cost?"

The value of real estate in Shenzhen has been rising rapidly. By 07, the average price had reached 1.3 yuan per square meter, which is more than four times higher than the national average price of 3000 yuan. It is so terrifying.

However, as a special economic zone, enjoying the dividends of rapid development brought by policies, this growth is normal.

It was only last year in 08, when the subprime mortgage crisis affected the country, that the average price dropped from 1.3 to 1.2.

In the first half of 09, the price has continued to drop to 1.1. It will surely recover and rise in the future, but the current average price is 1.1.

High-end areas like Banshan Villa are close to the sea and surrounded by scenic spots, resulting in housing prices here being more than twice the average market price in SZ, which is publicly announced to be 2.4 per square meter.

The 5800-square-meter villa that the family had their eyes on is one of the most expensive houses in the entire Banshanbie Park, with the publicly announced price reaching 3 yuan per square meter.

Liu Xiaoli had been bargaining for some time, and Dong Yonggui decided to reduce the price to 2.8. On this basis, Dong Yonggui still had the psychological expectation of a 9% discount, depending on whether the cooperation with the Brilliant Times Cinema Chain was smooth.

After going to Beijing and communicating smoothly with Wang Jinhua, he learned during today's meeting that Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei were buying a house for their wedding. He enthusiastically raised the discount: "Sister Liu, President Chu, President Liu, 8.5% off, this is really my greatest sincerity."

The original price was 3 per square meter, so the selling price for 5800 square meters is 1.74 million.

After bargaining down to 2.8 per square meter, the selling price is 1.62 million.

With a 8.5% discount on this basis, the selling price is 1.38 million yuan, which is 3600 million yuan cheaper than the original public selling price.

For Dong Yonggui, taking 3600 million as an admission ticket to enter the cinema coil is considered the ticket fee to open this channel. It is not painful, but it is not a small amount either. It can be considered a small gamble on the side.

For Chu Xuan, what is the exact value of the property? Is the public selling price really fair? This is a question mark in his mind. The cheap 3600 million must be a bit exaggerated, but considering that Dong Yonggui is currently in need of help from Brilliant Times, the real cheap figure should be above 2000 million.

He and Liu Yifei didn't say anything about it. His mother was better at budgeting, and it was his mother who paid for the house, so he could just let her negotiate.

When the aunt learned that the house was worth over 100 million yuan, she kept saying, "Ankang wanted him to buy the house, but you guys took care of his face and refused to let him, otherwise he would be even more embarrassed."

1.38 million is the price of an unfinished house, not including decoration. Even if they sold all their belongings several times, they still couldn't afford it.

During the marriage discussion during the Chinese New Year, Ankang was so proud that he wanted to buy a house for his daughter and son-in-law. Fortunately, Liu Xiaoli was more assertive, otherwise, facing such a big villa, Ankang would be short of money and would be embarrassed.

Hearing this, Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli's family smiled and showed interest.

"This can be used as a front hall..."

"This can be used as a side hall..."

"This place can be used as a back hall..."

Although the villa is still in a rough state, the layout is very clear. When my aunt-in-law visited the villa, she was very detailed and divided each scene as if it were an ancient wedding scene.

Accompanied by my mother, and together with my aunt, I dealt with Dong Yonggui, the capitalist, and had a lot of ideas about "cheaper interior decoration", "free internal greening", and "more property benefits".

Dong Yonggui didn't know whether to laugh or cry. The two women had too many demands, but facing major clients and partners with whom he had a vested interest, he could only deal with them with a sweat.

Under such circumstances, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei said goodbye at noon and returned to the crew to film with peace of mind, letting their mother and aunt handle the house matters with great confidence.

A few days later, with the dual "prayer" of my mother and aunt, my mother signed the down payment contract with satisfaction, with preferential terms such as "half-price internal greening", "free interior design", and "five years of free property management fees". Dong Yonggui stamped the contract with tears in his eyes.

At this moment, Liu Xiaoli has completely decided on this wedding house for her daughter and son-in-law.

For her, who never spends lavishly in her daily life, she bought this villa which cost 1.38 million yuan and would also cost a large amount of money for subsequent decoration. This was also an expression of her motherly love for her daughter's happiness and joy without any ambiguity or hesitation.

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, who were used to this kind of care, didn't feel anything. However, Zhang Shaohan, who heard about this, felt a little hurt: "We are all mothers, why are they so different?"

In response to this, the whole family burst into laughter. They never expected that their happiness would inadvertently irritate the girl. But it was hard to comfort her, so they could only sigh that everyone has their own life.

After deciding on the wedding room, the aunt-in-law could start planning. The process for ancient weddings was very complicated, but the scene was the core. The couple had promised the aunt-in-law that they would send someone to help, so they invited Mr. Qi Mu, the artistic coordinator of the crew.

"Are you really going to have an ancient wedding? You guys really know how to have fun." Qi Mu had previously heard from his group members that the couple were wearing ancient wedding costumes and that they were probably planning on having an ancient wedding. Now, seeing that the couple had invited him to their villa to see how the scenery would be set up, the fact that it was an ancient wedding was confirmed, which made him feel very interested.

He has been engaged in the field of film and television art production for about 10 to 20 years, and has dabbled in scene layout and prop setting for all types of films, as well as historical costumes from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Sui, Tang, Song and Ming Dynasties. What the couple requested was indeed within the scope of his professional field.

In this regard, facing such a happy event and the couple being his boss and his wife, he readily agreed: "For now, focus on My Love from the Star. Take some time to go and watch it. After My Love from the Star is finished, I will help you to observe and think about it in detail and then lead the team to arrange it. How do you think?"

"Okay, thank you Teacher Qi Mu." Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei agreed happily.

Just like that, with the help of Teacher Qi Mu and the company of her mother who gave her suggestions from time to time, her ideas about the couple's traditional marriage became clearer to her as the matchmaker.

They happily began to make suggestions for the decoration of the bridal chamber and made further arrangements and preparations for the couple's wedding, while the couple were peacefully and intensively filming the drama, and the completion of "My Love from the Star" was getting closer and closer.

On this day, Chen Luyu called. Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei put down their work on the crew and rushed to Guangzhou with Zhang Shaohan and her sister to witness the beginning of "Luyu Has an Appointment" reversing public opinion for Zhang Shaohan, and came to the recording site of the program.

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By May, the temperature in Guangzhou and Shenzhen has exceeded 30 degrees.

The recording stage of "A Date with Luyu" is located in Guangzhou Asia Television City. Although it is called a television city, it is actually a commercial park consisting of multiple buildings, store blocks and factory-style studios.

In the studio, the cool air from the air conditioner isolates the room from the heat outside.

The 100-seat auditorium was full, and except for Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, Liu Xiaoli, Zhou Jielun, Chen Zhenrong, Fang Wenshan and Zhang Hanxuan, the rest were all reporters from the Xinlang faction.

However, they did not have any logos on their bodies, and no one except these insiders knew that they were reporters, let alone that the upcoming interview was a premeditated one.

"Are the reporters you invited okay?"

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei and their group sat in the last row, and Xinlang Micro Entertainment News Chief Operating Officer Li Hong sat next to Chu Xuan.

Hearing Chu Xuan's question, Li Hong answered confidently: "No problem, we are all in the same community of interests, and our goals are the same in the plans to be launched."

The negative hot searches about Zhang Shaohan have long disappeared. Nowadays, apart from spontaneous discussions among netizens, almost no media reports on this matter anymore.

He also learned clearly through internal information that the channels for buying hot searches and articles to discredit Zhang Shaohan were cut off, which meant that Zhang Shaohan's mother had stopped injecting funds, and naturally no media would bother to discredit Zhang Shaohan anymore.

This also means that the public opinion against Zhang Shaohan has come to an end.

This also shows that the media outlets that should have received the money have received the final payment, and this shady hype has come to a temporary end.

Now that the money has been received in full, the media that were previously involved in this matter are no longer bound by any constraints. Faced with the task of reversing Zhang Shaohan's negative events, even if they don't know why and even if they feel a little ironic, it does not prevent the media from regaining a common interest.

Some of the reporters invited are internal staff of Xinlang, some are representatives of studios affiliated with Xinlang News, some are micro-entertainment celebrities who are willing to cling to Xinlang, and some are reporters from media companies that have long cooperated with Xinlang News.

Generally speaking, they are all members of the Xinlang News Media faction. In short, they are a community of interests.

In this plan, although Chu Xuan did not pay a penny to these media, he used the program "Lu Yu You Yue" as the starting point for hype. This method is more ruthless and high-end than directly paying money.

"A Date with Luyu" has credibility. There is no need for the media to make up stories on their own and bear the consequences of having the illusion exposed by the public or competitors. This kind of hype is most popular among well-known media.

This program also has ratings, so there is no need for the media to share profits to create initial popularity. The program is already popular, so just publish articles and follow the trend.

Reversing the public opinion about Zhang Shaohan is even more attractive. In the recent period of time when there was basically no topic or article to prove Zhang Shaohan's name in the public opinion, having first-hand information to reverse this matter may cause a greater positive public opinion impact than the previous negative public opinion. Therefore, this first-hand information is very valuable.

And this first-hand information, the "Luyu Youyue" segment led by Chu Xuan, can be provided to these media free of charge.

With this series of common interests in mind, he briefly brought the matter to the attention of these media outlets, who flocked to the event, with none of them rejecting it.

For these media, some people slandered others some time ago and now they are helping others, which is very shameless. But it doesn’t matter what is spread or what the style of doing things is. What matters is whether they can make a profit.

This may not be the media's personal idea, but the collective interests of the companies behind them drive them to do this. However, this is how the industry is after all. Most people are immersed in the confusion of truth and falsehood and cannot extricate themselves.

"Mr. Chu..." Li Hong shouted and then stopped, because the show started. Zhang Shaohan walked onto the stage amid the applause of the crowd and sat on the sofa opposite Chen Luyu.

"What's wrong?" Chu Xuan looked at him with a little confusion.

"Nothing." Li Hong shook his head. He really wanted to ask Chu Xuan if he had any other purpose besides helping Zhang Shaohan out of kindness. But asking this question would be very unemotional, and it was difficult to ask. He was even more unable to ask after being interrupted by the sound of the show starting.

In fact, his true inner thoughts when facing Chu Xuan were that in the past, their Xinlang faction's media had worked together to hype up matters or create public opinion, all because they were united because of vested interests.

For example, if someone puts up money, everyone can get together and work hard to do something.

For example, when there is public opinion or a hot topic, everyone will take advantage of the popularity and publish articles.

This is also a common practice in the media industry across the country. Under normal circumstances, the media is in a state of disarray, with everyone doing their own thing without a goal.

As for the situation like this time where their Xinlang faction of media were brought together to conspire in this matter, he had never heard of or seen such a thing before.

This experience gave him a new understanding that capital can manipulate the media, but it can also unite the media.

In today's market, those big guys are only doing the former, they are only doing the business of manipulating the media. No one is trying to unite the media, to consolidate the media into a rope, or an organization, to give the media long-term goals, and a long-term career, so that they can do something.

He thought that Chu Xuan had capital strength, outstanding wisdom, and the ability and means. If he could bring all these media together and find a general direction to work in, the energy that their Xinlangchuan Media could unleash in this direction would be unimaginable.

Just like in the case of Zhang Shaohan, he and his colleagues were very angry when they learned the truth, but they could do nothing about it. However, Chu Xuan was able to easily bring them together through his planning and his convincing capital strength.

If Chu Xuan is willing to bring them together in the long run and take similar incidents as the general direction of the media, in the future, whenever there is negative public opinion affecting social events, if they get the truth, they will spontaneously publish articles to reverse it. Such a career will not only be enjoyable but also will not have any psychological burden, because they stand on the moral line.

But without someone like Chu Xuan to stand up for them, none of these media outlets would do so. Without a common goal, there would be no strong centripetal force. Without strong centripetal force, there would be no sufficient interests. Without sufficient interests, there would be no courage to "go against the market."

However, he didn’t know how to tell Chu Xuan about all this, nor did he know what Chu Xuan thought, so he could only keep it in his heart.

"Wow~" There was suddenly some commotion at the scene.

Li Hong has the truth in his hands, but many media present do not know the truth about Zhang Shaohan's public opinion.

Many people were really surprised to hear the content of the interview between Chen Luyu and Zhang Shaohan.

Zhang Shaohan went to live in Canada with her family when she was young. She went out to work when she was 16 years old and won prizes in various singing competitions in Canada. From then on, she earned money for her father's medical treatment, her mother's living expenses, and her sister's tuition. She can be said to have supported her family on her own.

Combined with the public opinion some time ago, although Zhang Shaohan did not say bad things about his parents, perhaps the program crew had done the work in advance, but they could also imagine that the mother used her daughter as a tool to make money, and the daughter was obedient because she was ignorant before, and now that she has grown up, it is still the same situation, so conflicts will definitely break out.

This conflict may be the root cause of the recent public opinion. Maybe the daughter wanted to save money for medical treatment, and the mother was unwilling to accept the fact that she had less money? So the mother swallowed up all the money of her daughter? And she even turned the tables on her daughter and said that she was a bad girl?
"Hiss~" Some reporters took a breath of cold air and felt chilled all over.

It would be fine if they didn't know the truth, but knowing the truth now is really terrifying. Even though some of them have done a lot of work for black people for money, this fact still makes their three views refreshed.

"Oh." Liu Xiaoli sighed, feeling unfair for Zhang Shaohan.

"What a sin." Liu Yifei said, looking at Zhang Shaohan with pity, whose eyes were red and tearful on the stage.

Chu Xuan folded his arms and looked at it. Suddenly, he turned his head and said to Li Hong, "Boss Li, can we give this operation a code name?"

Li Hong was stunned. Code name?

Do you need a code name to hype up a public opinion?
Is it so ceremonial?

He smiled and said, "What code name does Mr. Chu want?"

There was some interest in Chu Xuan's eyes. He looked at the stage, but he was actually lost in thought.

Zhang Shaohan had been staying at the crew hotel for some time. In order to prevent her from being upset, he and Liu Yifei had never asked about the specific truth about the public opinion. He also had no idea what Chen Luyu and Li Hong discussed in the private interviews.

Coming to the scene today and hearing about Zhang Shaohan’s experiences and some things with his own ears, he was deeply touched.

But what touched him most was not pity for Zhang Shaohan, although he had such thoughts, but he was more touched by the domestic public opinion environment.

He founded Weiyu, but it has developed into a platform that does not distinguish between truth and falsehood and seeks profit by hurting others, which makes him feel uncomfortable.

But this was also within his expectations. Weiyu was just like the profit-driven Weibo in his memory. He, the butterfly, did not change the established trend of capital seeking profits.

Under the profit-seeking trend of the shareholder meeting interest groups, he, Sister Hua and even Cao Guowei, the chairman, could not change anything and could only let Weiyu develop in this way.

This is the drawback of listed companies. If you are not extremely profit-seeking, there will be no capital to play with you. Without capital to play with you, you will not be able to effectively seize the market.

In the interest group of Weiyu shareholders, there is an element that is overlooked by many people, that is, there are Wall Street tycoons among the shareholders.

The more chaotic the Chinese public opinion field is, the better. This is the political correctness of America.

When it comes to making Weiyu fair, just and open, these Wall Street tycoons are the first to disagree.

In order to achieve this, these foreign investors must be kicked out of the micro-entertainment profit group.

In order to kick them out of the micro-entertainment interest group, the first thing to do is to delist Xinlang from the Nasdaq in the United States and completely localize it.

He had thought about taking back Weiyu, but considering the extremely complicated series of things that happened, he had to give up the idea because he didn't have the ability to do it all.

As a second best option, just follow your original plan.

Since we cannot change the capital group, we should start by changing some media. Taking Zhang Shaohan’s public opinion as a starting point, we can build our own media network to fight against the false things on the Internet and to counter unexpected situations that are unfavorable to us.

"22149, how is it?" Chu Xuan asked.

"22149?" Li Hong was stunned.

What is this mysterious code?
He didn't know why.

Liu Yifei also tilted her head to look at Chu Xuan curiously, not understanding the meaning of this string of numbers as a code name.

Chu Xuan smiled and said, "In 221 BC, the Qin Dynasty unified the country and achieved the great feat of 'standardizing the wheels and writing system'. The First Emperor also used the media at the time to publicize the ideology. 49 years... I don't need to say anything. Let's follow the footsteps of our ancestors and move forward towards the light of righteousness. Let's be bolder and more generous. Let's call it 22149. How about it?"

"Fuck!" Li Hong smiled in shock, raised his thumb, and said with a look of respect: "Boss Chu has a big vision!"

After hearing what Chu Xuan said, he somewhat understood Chu Xuan's mind and also understood Chu Xuan's character.

22149? How could such an awesome code name only be used for a publicity stunt?

Perhaps, Chu Xuan's mind can reach a consensus with his ideas, or a consensus has already been reached.

Although he didn't understand Chu Xuan's specific thoughts, perhaps Chu Xuan was not very familiar with him and did not trust him, so he had no plans to make close friends with him at the moment. This was normal to think about, but it also ignited some fighting spirit in him and made him see the hope that Chu Xuan could unite them into one.

"22149...awesome." He praised it in his heart. He didn't understand its meaning at first, but when he heard it again, his blood was ignited. This code name is really awesome.

"Awesome." Liu Yifei smiled and praised Chu Xuan in a low voice. She knew what Chu Xuan wanted to do. He had told her that he wanted to build his own media network. She just didn't expect that it would be attached with such a meaningful code name. It was pretty awesome.

(End of this chapter)