“The leading casts of 《Qing Guo》had been announced prior to this. Like everyone else, the original poster is also curious about Zhou Siyu, the third female lead, who plays Yun He. After all, she’s very noticeable. If she has had projects before, the original poster would definitely have an impression about her. However, when the original poster dug deep to look for her details, she found that something was fishy. As you all know, Director Liang’s movies have always been a big project with big reputations. However, this Zhou Siyu had only taken a couple of pictures since the day of her debut. She even had never done any advertisements. How could such an unqualified and unskilled newcomer wormed her way into Director Liang’s production crew?”
At the beginning of the post, they put on a show like they were really just checking 《Qing Guo》’s casts earnestly. Then, they finally targeted Siyu, doubting that Siyu – a newcomer who didn’t have any projects before – depended on her connection to enter the production crew.
Because Ji Lin was also one of the casts, many people paid attention to this new project of Director Liang. This post quickly became the top in the forum’s homepage. The post was followed closely by a large group of people who continuously expressed their doubts about Siyu who ‘didn’t have the ability to enter the production crew’. Moreover, very quickly there was someone who dug up the entirety of Siyu’s personal record [of education, work experience, attainments, etc].
【When this model made her debut, she didn’t even have any decent works. This kind of person actually can act for a film?】
【I’m disappointed! Director Liang’s reputation is very good. How could he use such a person for this movie? At first, I rushed here because of Ji-ge, but now I’m a bit hesitant. How could an actress who got in through the backdoor act well?! 】
【I recalled that this Zhou Siyu had become a top-search twice before? Maybe because at that time, she couldn’t even cause the slightest ripples, she began to buy the hot search to hype her up. The financial backer behind her must have paid a lot of marketing fee to hold her.】
Once things started to be brought up, the situation behind became unstoppable. All kinds of speculations and abuses poured in one after another. All of a sudden this ‘digging’ became a hot thread. Even to the extent that these topics of “Zhou Siyu’s financial backer” and “Zhou Siyu’s behind-the-scenes supporter” became a hot search on Weibo.
In a short time, 《Qing Guo》’s official blog was once again jam-packed with people. The crowd of people continuously mentioned the official blog in hope that they would come out and explained how Siyu got into the production crew. Needless to say, the personal mailbox of that “Zhou Siyu yuyuyu” account of Siyu was also quickly filled to a bursting point.
“Siyu-jie, what’s going on? Who bought the water-army to defame you?!” Chen Yue had always helped Siyu in managing this official account. As soon as she went online this time, she was immediately submerged in countless personal messages and mentions. After she finished reading all of it with great difficulty and understood the whole story, Chen Yue was dumbfounded.
Their Siyu was completely transparent before and this was her first time shooting for a movie. Yet, at this moment there’s actually someone who purposefully vilified her?
The post on the forum clearly indicated that someone was deliberately guiding the public’s opinion. Chen Yue saw that the hot searches about Siyu were still climbing up. She was a bit apprehensive and hastily asked, “Siyu-jie, how about I contact the company and let the public relations department investigate it for you?”
Right now, Siyu has just started, so she must not be tainted with any bad things!
Siyu was skimming through that post on her phone. She saw that in that post the speculation about her backer differed widely. However, when she saw that they were going in circles and no one was brave enough to directly point out that she had the support from Huanyi’s CEO, She broke into laughter, “ I reckoned that even if they check, they wouldn’t be able to find any clue. There’s certainly traces of the water-army in there, but the person who directed the post must be very smart. Because she knows that I had the support of Huanyi, if she directly pointed things out then she’d truly offend Huanyi, therefore she all along just muddled the water through fake news.”
Chen Yue pondered over it and burst into a sweat, “So you mean….. The person who posted this to vilify you is inside the production crew?”
The reason was very simple, previously no one knew that Siyu had a contract with Huanyi. It was only after Lu Xingzhou who in high-profile flung an investment contract to maintain Siyu’s role that the casts in the production crew knew that this unknown little girl had a backer. Therefore, it could only be someone from the production crew who released the news.
Right at this moment, Director Liang came over with anger shown on his face. Obviously, he also heard the matter of someone on the internet doing a large-scale ‘digging up’ of Siyu’s matter. Now that Siyu was in the production crew, if something went wrong, the whole crew would be implicated. Furthermore, there was a large number of internet users who incessantly demanded answers under the official blog.
“Siyu, please be assured. Don’t be affected by these groundless talks. You are someone whom I personally selected and I’m very clear about this.” Seeing Siyu shrinking in the chair while sipping her medicine made Director Liang suddenly remember that these days she had been sick, but gritted her teeth and insisted on filming. Her illness had never implicated the film progression and so he couldn’t help but feel pity for her.
He rarely met actresses like Siyu who regarded acting as something more important than her own health. Only by true love that one would be so dedicated. Those speculations on the internet that said that she’s someone who relied on her connection to get into through the backdoor was simply a slander!
“Director Liang, Now that some people are doubting the production crew, I wonder if you need me to clarify things….” Siyu tentatively asked.
“You don’t need to say anything about this matter.” Director Liang’s expression turned serious and he coldly said, “I’ll deal with it. You just need to maintain your condition and properly finish the shooting. The final result of the movie you starred in will be the strongest counterattack.”
Siyu obediently nodded, “I understand.”
After she said that, a figure like a whirlwind blew over. It directly ignored Director Liang and flew over to Siyu’s side, “J-jie you shouldn’t look at your phone for the time being——”
Ji Lin got a glimpse of Siyu’s phone screen and it happened that the screen still showed the interface of that ‘digging’ post in the forum. Thus, his sentence came to an abrupt end.
“Why can’t I look at it? Aren’t what they said was well presented?” Siyu high-spiritedly skimmed over the replies to that post and lamented that the hole in the internet users’ brain was really big. Even to the extent that some people suspected that she was a miss perfect who entered the entertainment circle for fun! Siyu laughingly looked at Ji Lin who was helplessly looking at her while inwardly thinking that this was the true rich second generation. [T/N: 白富美- Miss perfect, a girl who’s white, rich, and beautiful]
Ji Lin saw that he was a step too late and his sister had already seen them. He immediately felt disheartened and said, “Jie, the things they said are very rude!”
Not only that it was unpleasant to the ear, but all kinds of baseless speculations were thrown over. Ji Lin immediately burst with rage, if it wasn’t for Xiao Ai desperately stopping him, he would have released a post on Weibo to support Siyu at that time.
However, even if he couldn’t use his official account, he still had his smurf account! Ji Lin coldly laughed and switched over to that smurf account called “Braised Fish Head” that he specially made for his sister. At that time, in order to collect his sister’s photos better, Ji Lin specially joined Siyu’s fans club. As soon as the slanderous post appeared, Ji Lin went into the group and sure enough, everyone was boiling with rage.
Ji Lin had mixed in the entertainment circle for many years. What kind of pork he hadn’t eaten and what kind of pig he hadn’t seen running? He immediately took the lead to organize the fans in the group to fight back. Someone said that Siyu bought the top search? Then they immediately threw the video of her saving people from that time and threw the comments full of praises from the online netizens! There’s someone that said Siyu didn’t have a work base? Then they immediately threw cover pictures of 《Fashion ICON》 and the sales made from the magazine!
The solid hammers were set out one by one and beat those wicked stupid b*tches’ face into a pulp! Ji Lin’s fingers were unceasingly hitting on the keyboard and his gaze was firmly locked onto the screen. He had been up all night to fight bravely on the frontline. He was a young master from a rich family who had been well-educated since childhood, so how could he know how to do a catfight on the internet? It was all a ‘learn and apply on the spot’. After one full night, he had mastered all the curse words.