This year's Golden Dove Awards selection was more grand and larger in scale than in previous years. The organizers showed their determination to create China's number one music festival, but unfortunately the social impact was still too low and ordinary people were not interested.

Moreover, this year's selection takes place during the Olympic Games, so media attention and coverage may not be as great as in previous years.

The two girl groups from Xia Haoyang's studio became the biggest winners of this year's Golden Dove Awards thanks to their outstanding performance in the Xinan TV program "Singer", and won many trophies.

Xia Haoyang, who did not attend the award ceremony, also won two major awards from the organizing committee, Best Composition and Best Lyrics, and they were double-yolk awards. The Best Composition and Best Lyrics awards were won by the same two songs: "She's So Beautiful" and "Your Meaning".

However, this trick was used in last year's Golden Crane TV Art Festival and the Golden Tapir Film Awards, and the beneficiaries were all Xia Haoyang, so it did not cause any waves and seemed to be what everyone expected.

Even Xia Haoyang's absence from the awards ceremony was understood by those present. Zhao Yishen, who accepted the award on behalf of Xia Haoyang, said on stage: "Xia Haoyang has become arrogant since he became the richest man in China. He has refused to come to music awards ceremonies. He now only attends meetings and events at the Great Hall of the People."

There was laughter at the scene, and everyone knew it was a joke.

So Zhao Yishen continued, "In fact, Mr. Xia's work focus is now on script writing. Many of the films that have been shown in theaters recently were written by Mr. Xia, and he still owes the five major film and television companies ten scripts that have not been submitted. This is the fundamental reason why Mr. Xia is so busy every day that he forgets to eat and sleep and cannot come to the scene to receive the award."

Zhao Yishen's remarks gave enough face to the Golden Dove Award organizing committee, and the award ceremony that day could be considered a happy occasion for everyone.

Xia Haoyang did not go to southern Yunnan, but he did not have an easy time these days.

He had been doing nothing at first and was just lying down on the set of director Liu Chang, but recently the Guoan team has been in the news frequently.

The Chinese Football Super League is different from the European leagues. It does not cross the New Year. It starts in March and ends in November every year.

Although China is vast, it is basically a continental monsoon climate. December is the coldest month in both the north and south, which is not suitable for outdoor activities. The reason why European football leagues cross the New Year is that they are located on the west side of the Eurasian continent. Unlike China's continental climate, they have more Mediterranean and marine climates, which makes their winters not so cold, so they can also hold leagues in December, January, and February.

This year, the domestic leagues in China have not yet ended in December because the national team had to take part in the World Cup in the summer.

In a match this week, Guoan lost 0-1 to Pengcheng team. Because of the consecutive low-level mistakes made by the defenders and goalkeeper, self-media bloggers and netizens suspected that it was a match-fixing, so the executive president Ma Yi called Xia Haoyang.

With an attitude of responsibility towards the Guoan team, Xia Haoyang convened a second senior management meeting at the Guoan Club and invited head coaches at all levels of the team to participate.

"Maybe everyone has seen it, but let's watch the video again." Xia Haoyang said seriously.

The game video shows the goal conceded by Guoan in this match. Under the pressure of the opponent's players, two defenders made consecutive mistakes and errors in a hurry, allowing the opponent to have a one-on-one opportunity. Then the goalkeeper's attack violated the opponent's offensive player and he was awarded a penalty kick. It was also this ball that led to the game ending 0:1 and Guoan's defeat.

"I'm not a football professional, so I can't judge, but everyone here was once a professional and has played hundreds or even thousands of professional games. Now tell me, was this goal fixed or a player's mistake? I need a clear answer." Xia Haoyang looked around at everyone who came to the meeting.

Xia Haoyang publicly brought the matter to the table and caught everyone present off guard. It was obvious that with this attitude, if the coaches or managers present insisted that it was a fixed match, then the three players who made the mistakes would definitely be dealt with seriously by Xia Haoyang, and their careers would end there. This would be a matter of cutting off one's retreat, and generally speaking, Chinese people do not want to take things to the extreme.

For Guoan's middle and senior management and head coaches, they didn't want a little gossip to cause such a big commotion, and they could solve it tactfully. But everyone was unfamiliar with Xia Haoyang, the big boss, and didn't know how to advise the big boss of the club in such an occasion, so everyone's eyes were on Vice Chairman Zhang Lu.

Mr. Zhang Lu is not usually responsible for the daily management of the club, but his influence is extraordinary. As a famous football commentator and senior goalkeeper of the Guoan team, Mr. Zhang Lu is the best face of the Guoan team. When Xia Haoyang was the chairman of the Guoan team, he also invited Mr. Zhang Lu to serve as the club's executive president.

Seeing this situation, only Teacher Zhang Lu could be the first to speak out: "Ahem, Mr. Xia, this video alone cannot prove that these young players are match-fixing. Domestic players are generally afraid of being pressed in high-level competitions. The handling of these two young defenders seemed a bit rash, but it should be that their skills went astray in a panic. It is too biased to arbitrarily conclude that it was a match-fixing."

Teacher Zhang Lu's speech was pertinent and not extreme, and the managers and coaches at all levels nodded in agreement.

Xia Haoyang did not comment and continued to listen.

"As for the goalkeeper's attack, I was a goalkeeper myself and I understand this mentality very well. It is necessary to attack and it is right to attack, but it may be that the young man misjudged the direction at the beginning and decided to use a tackle to save and make up for it. In general, this young goalkeeper lacks experience and is a bit impulsive, but this has nothing to do with match-fixing."

Perhaps because of what Mr. Zhang Lu said earlier, others also expressed their opinions, which generally meant the same thing.

After listening to everyone's opinions, Xia Haoyang remained unmoved. He asked the club's foreign head coach about his opinion on the goal and the opinions of the three players on the field.

Everyone present at the meeting became nervous again, fearing that the foreign coach might exaggerate a little bit. No one could guarantee how Xia Haoyang, the new young chairman of the club who was in his twenties and could not tolerate any sand in his eyes, would handle it.

Because the mentality of young people is to dare to take risks, dare to fight, and dare to break the jar to give up, but this kind of one-size-fits-all approach without leaving any way out will make everyone in the club panic and cause unnecessary turmoil.

So there is a saying that we are not afraid of the second generation of rich people who indulge in pleasure, but we are afraid of the second generation of rich people who are too ambitious. Any young people who are too ambitious will appear to be extreme and incomplete in their actions.

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