Chapter 370 - When Did The Ability Activate?
Chapter 370 When Did The Ability Activate?
Seeing that Su Yang was in a daze, Little Hus stole a glance at Su Yang before happily moving its four legs that were made of cloth and ran out.
‘From the looks of it, I think it’s going to find Janet and show him its new look.
‘But judging by the time, Janet would probably be asleep already… This bolster is not afraid of being eaten by a shark in one bite.’
Initially, Su Yang wanted to teach it a lesson. However, when he thought about its new talent, he pondered for a moment. ‘Forget it, I should just let it off this time…
‘After all, why would a salted fish like myself argue with a puppy?’
As Su Yang let Little Hus do as it pleased, the countdown time slowly reached o. Su Yang’s index finger gradually recovered as well.
Su Yang took off his salted fish mask and returned to his study with the bench in hand. He put the two special items away and exited the virtual space. After taking a shower, he climbed onto the hotel bed and fell asleep.
The next morning, Su Yang was woken up by a knock on the door.
He put on his bathrobe, got up, and opened the door. Standing outside by the door was… Lin Jiali.
Su Yang was a little confused. ‘I have not touched Little Hus, have I? Why is Lin Jiali here all of a sudden?’
Su Yang suddenly realized. ‘I did kick Little Hus’s butt!
‘Could it be… the talent had been triggered during that time?
‘This talent is ridiculous! A single kick is all it takes to trigger it?
‘That means I can’t even touch it now!’
Looking at Lin Jiali, Su Yang forced a smile. “What’s the matter? Why are you here looking for me when it’s so early in the morning?”
Lin Jiali looked behind Su Yang and then down the corridor before whispering, “Can I go in? It’s quite…”
Before she could finish her sentence, Su Yang understood what she meant. ‘Whatever it is, she’s still a celebrity and would be easily recognized.’
Su Yang nodded and stepped aside to let her in.
Lin Jiali walked into the room and headed for the window very naturally like she knew the place well. She pulled open the tightly shut curtains and opened the window very slightly. Then she said, “You shouldn’t keep the windows closed all the time, the room needs to be ventilated frequently.”
Su Yang asked casually, “Should I open the windows and let the smog come in?” Lin Jiali was speechless.
She silently closed the window. ‘I suppose he’s right.’
Su Yang gestured for her to sit on the sofa and tightened his bathrobe. He asked, “Why do you have my address?”
Lin Jiali waved the phone in her hand. “This is the era of technology. A few phone calls is all it takes to find out since someone will definitely know where you live.” ‘That’s the Apple phone that Lin Jiali stole when we first met.’
Looking at the phone, Su Yang was reminded of how Lin Jiali was on the verge of a breakdown that day.
Su Yang nodded and sat on the other side of the sofa. There was a small table between the two of them so there was a “safe distance” between them.
‘Lin Jiali is wearing a pink dress today. Her hair isn’t completely combed up like before. Instead, she has two strands of hair dangling by her ears. She even used her hair curler to make some curls hanging down her cheeks, making her exquisite face look even more petite.
‘No matter when it is, this female celebrity is still as beautiful as ever.’ While Su Yang was sizing up Lin Jiali, Lin Jiali’s beautiful eyes were also ‘sweeping’ over Su Yang’s body out of curiosity all the way from his neck, his slightly exposed chest, to his legs under the bathrobe and his bare feet. As she looked at him, a smile appeared on her face. “Did you just wake up?”
Su Yang looked at the time on the bed. “Isn’t it obvious?”
The clock by his bedside showed that it was only 9 am.
Su Yang asked, “You must have something to tell me urgently to be here this early, don’t you?”
Lin Jiali said, “I wanted to ask you, is that web movie really going to be a success?”
Su Yang yawned. He had slept a little late last night in order to give Little Hus an extra point so he did not have enough sleep. “It will be a success. Guaranteed.”
Lin Jiali opened her phone and found a piece of news before passing it to Su Yang.
Su Yang took it and looked at it casually for a while. Then, he shivered and sobered up.
This piece of news was a “Documentary report” and its title was “The shocking truth behind the failed film “Fighting The Buddha”.
Su Yang read the content. The person who wrote this article clearly knows a lot about “Fighting The Buddha”. This content has all negative news about the film.
‘Not only did the article state that the filming was completed over a period of just seven days, it even stated about the director swap the next day.
‘It even stated that the new director is a teenage girl.
‘Furthermore, it even states that there are many unspoken rules from within the production team. An anonymous actress who played a minor character even expressed that she had been coerced by the higher-ups of the production team and demanded that she sleep with them at night to ensure that she would appear on screen.
‘They even managed to get interviews from people of various departments. All of them have said that the director was unprofessional and that he was messing around and did not know what he was doing which made the production crew furious.’
After Su Yang read the article, he immediately came to a conclusion. ‘Someone is deliberately causing trouble.
“To be honest, everything that has been stated in the article is true, but someone has deliberately changed the order that the events happened, that’s why everything looks much more different than what actually happened.
‘In fact, Director Wang was the one who caused all the departments to be angry at him, he was even the one who had come up with that unspoken rule of sleeping with the actresses. That’s why I replaced him on the second day of production.
‘However, because the order had been switched plus how messily it had been resolved, it’s now turned into a situation where the higher-ups are the ones who had changed directors for no good reason and enforced that ridiculous rule on the actresses. What’s worse, they even made it look like we let a teenage girl direct the show on purpose.
‘Because of how detailed this article has been written, I’m guessing the first reaction from the readers who saw this article was that the production crew was a disgrace and would naturally be making a lousy movie.
‘That would mean, the person who wrote this article must have achieved their goal.’
When Su Yang finished reading it, his face darkened. ‘Right now, we’re in the midst of discussing the details of our marketing plan with iQiyi. If this piece of news were to reach them, it might cause a lot of mishaps to a negotiation that was going very smoothly.’ While Su Yang was deep in thought, Lin Jiali ran her fingers through her hair and added, “This article has been spreaded to many web pages already.”
Su Yang nodded and said, “Give me a moment.”
After saying that, he picked up Little Deeny who was by the bedside and called Little Bun.
‘Best leave the professional matters for the professionals to handle.’
Shortly after, Li Zijun picked up the call.
Before Su Yang could speak, Li Zijun said, “Mr. Su, have you seen the news?”
Su Yang made a noise in acknowledgement.
Li Zijun seemed to be walking since she was a little breathless. She said, “I managed to find the author the moment I saw it. The author said that someone had provided him with the materials and a sum of money so that he could write the article. However, he didn’t expect for it to cause such a huge commotion, and would be spreaded by so many public accounts and media.”
“I’ve already sent him a lawyer’s letter and have asked him to delete the article. He has already deleted it. Now, I’ve just gotten ahold of his statement to ban all reposts of the article and will be contacting everyone to remove their posts.”
Su Yang sighed in relief. ‘As expected of a three-star genius. She has thought so many steps ahead.’
Su Yang nodded. “You’ve done well. I’ll leave you to it then. I hope that the situation can be mitigated with minimal impact. Also, when you’re free, give me the information about the person who wrote the article and the person who transferred the money to him. I’ll ask someone to look into that.”
Li Zijun hurriedly replied, “Understood!”
The phone call was disconnected.
Su Yang felt fortunate. ‘It’s a good thing that it’s a Saturday today, that means the people at IQiyi wouldn’t be working. That means Li Zijun has got plenty of time to deal with this matter.
‘If it was a working day and Li Zijun was busy negotiating, that would mean that I had to deal with them myself, what a drag.
‘I don’t feel insulted that Li Zijun is much more capable than I am in marketing. ‘As a qualified boss, I don’t need to know everything. If I did, what’s the point of trying to acquire talents? I might as well do everything myself.
Recently, I’ve been learning a lot about business management. I understand that the most important thing as a business leader isn’t about how technically knowledgeable we are, but our ability to see the bigger picture and using the right person for the right job.’
After leaving matters for Li Zijun to handle, Su Yang hung up the phone and returned to the table.
Lin Jiali looked at him with her pretty face. “Is it settled?”
Su Yang nodded. “It should be fine.”
Hearing Su Yang’s words, Lin Jiali nodded and said, “I went back to take a good look at the plan you gave me the other day. To be honest…”
“I don’t understand it.”
Su Yang wanted to laugh.
Lin Jiali scratched her head with her hand, but maybe because she was afraid of messing up the hair beside her ears, her hand scratched a little too high up. ‘She looks… like a cute little monkey.’ She looked at Su Yang and said seriously, “Although I don’t understand, I’ve thought about it. You’re my hardcore fan, that means you won’t harm me!”
Initially, her tone was firm. However, just as she was about to finish her sentence, she turned quite timid. She shrank her neck and looked at Su Yang cautiously. “…I think?”
Su Yang suppressed his laughter and nodded.
Lin Jiali heaved a sigh of relief. “I was worried that you didn’t want me to become famous and that you wanted to be the only fan I have.”
Su Yang purposely revealed a look of realization. “So that’s how it could be. That means, I can have you all to myself.”
Lin Jiali was speechless.
She quickly said, “You can’t do that!” Su Yang smiled. “Don’t worry. I won’t. Even if I ignore the fact that I’m a fan of yours, I’m still your boss. You would only be able to earn money for me if you succeed in your work.”
Su Yang was being realistic. Initially, he thought that Lin Jiali would feel uncomfortable after listening to him. However, he did not expect that the silly female celebrity would only tilt her head and think for a moment before nodding her head and said “That makes sense.”
The minds of the foolish are truly special.’
Perhaps she had dispelled her concerns, Lin Jiali spoke her mind. “Su Yang, you asked me the last time about what I think of the “Fighting The Buddha”. To be honest, I feel that… It will definitely fail.”
“But you seem to have some kind of magic that allows you to succeed no matter what you do, so I think I should believe you.”
“That’s why I believe that this movie of yours will definitely be a success. In fact, I think it will be a big success! As for the box office… That’s right, I believe it should be 20 million at least!”
Su Yang was speechless.
‘What the f*ck? Why does this feel so wrong?’
Su Yang was a little flustered. ‘Normally, shouldn’t you be the one who refuses to believe that it would work! Then, I would put in all sorts of hard work and shove it in your face when it succeeds?.
‘Now that you’re suddenly placing so much trust in me. I’m actually panicking…
‘Is my movie going to fail?’
At the thought of this, Su Yang felt that he had to look for Little Hus to confirm the potential of this project with its ability!
‘After all, this project is heavily related to my Silver mission!
‘I’ve spent the ten million yuan that I would’ve earned from the silver mission all on it. ‘If the movie fails… The silver quest will inevitably go down as well…’