0713: You who shine in the parallel world

Long Danni instinctively did not think that there might be any connection between Yu Yu and IS. After all, since he returned to China fifteen years ago, there has been no trace of him in the entertainment industry.

If someone said that a big shot in the photography world knew him, Long Danni would probably believe that Cyrus had reached the top level in their industry. He was not only a photographer, but also an explorer.

But if someone said that Yu Yu not only had an enviable family background and possessed such superb musical talent, and had already reached the top level in a certain industry, and that he could also influence and even control the decision-making of IS, the ceiling-level music studio in Europe and the United States, Long Danni would not believe it.

How could there be such a perfect and omnipotent person in the world? This doesn't make sense. How could he have so much energy to delve into so many fields?

Long Danni speculated that Yu Yu's role in this was at most that he knew someone from IS. He heard that the other party had recently cooperated with Penguin and was in the inspection period, while he was recording a variety show for Penguin, so he recommended people from IS to come and take a look. After all, Cyrus, that is, Yu Yu, the rich man, often spent money to buy IS's soundtracks before.

If she knew that Yu Yuben was the boss behind IS, and not only that, he was also the god-level singer Query that she dared not even imagine, she would probably doubt her life and think she was dreaming. Even novels dare not write such a ridiculous plot.

Recently, the program did have a sudden withdrawal of investment by the sponsors, because those "old guys" who had tricked her fifteen years ago, and the popularity and discussion of the young idols promoted by her and the sponsors in the first two episodes on the Internet did not meet the expected standards.

Before the recording of the third episode, Penguin did not take the initiative to find her for accountability. This made Long Danni feel uneasy when she saw the chief producer sent by Penguin in recent days, and she was not sure what the behemoth's real opinion of the show was.

It is precisely because of this that in the third recording, for the sake of her star, to disrupt 07+'s stage, and to teach Su Xing a lesson, Long Danni radically chose to tamper with his microphone.

Now a phone call finally brought down the sword of Dalmos that had been hanging over his head, and even brought about a worse consequence.

Those old guys who should have been abandoned by this era, should be dominated by young idols in their teens and twenties now, they should just accept their age, be a supporting role, and be grateful to her for giving them a chance to stand on the music stage again, instead of being ungrateful and shamelessly fighting for power and attention like they are now!

If it weren't for them, how could the sponsor withdraw its investment? If they were obedient and low-key, how could she choose to shut up? How could the IS investigators discover the little tricks in the show, thus affecting the cooperation with the big boss and causing her show to be cancelled? !

Of course, it is impossible for her to reflect on herself. If she knew how to introspect, she would not be Long Danni.

Long Danni became more and more angry as she thought about it. She picked up the phone with the broken screen on the ground and wanted to call Penguin back to explain the reason and try to win back his heart. Unfortunately, the other party did not answer, obviously he had made up his mind.

Unwilling to give up, Long Danni called the other party's secretary again. The originally kind male secretary on the other end of the phone now sounded a little cold. He told her that Mr. Zhou was currently having a conference call with IS, and if she had anything to say, she could leave a message, and then hung up the phone.

Damn lackey.

Long Danni stared at her phone fiercely, thinking that after she got through this stage, she would teach this snobbish secretary a lesson.

Unable to contact her boss, she could only settle for the next best thing and look for Mr. Han, the general producer representing Penguin. She actually didn't have much interaction with him. Although he was sent by Penguin, Mr. Han didn't care about things most of the time. He looked around like an old man in the vegetable market all day long. He was friendly to everyone like a good guy and had no sense of existence.

In Long Danni's view, he was just a decoration sent by the superiors to remind her that this was the place where the penguins were in charge.

Now the stage part of the third episode has been recorded. According to past rules, President Han will not watch the subsequent behind-the-scenes filming. Long Danni hurriedly walked around the studio and finally stopped President Han who was about to leave in the parking garage.

Facing the breathless Long Danni, he still had the same friendly smile on his face as before: "Boss Long, why are you in such a hurry? Is there something urgent? Don't worry, take a breath first and speak slowly."

Seeing that the other party's attitude was as friendly as before, Long Danni thought that he had not received any instructions from above, or that he still had some expectations for this program, so she quickly raised an overly enthusiastic smile: "Oh, Mr. Han, I finally found you. I do have something urgent to discuss with you. You see, it's time for dinner now, why don't I treat you to dinner and we can talk while we eat?"

"No, no, Mr. Long, you are too polite. I have already prepared dinner at home. I promised my wife and children that I would go home to eat. If you have something urgent, why don't you just say it here?"

"Here..." Long Danni looked around hesitantly. The garage was a public place and there were no secrets. She was worried that there might be ears through the walls.

"If not, how about we talk about it tomorrow?"

Seeing that he was about to get in the car and leave, Long Danni immediately stepped forward to stop him: "No, this matter is indeed a bit urgent, I'd better tell you now."

"It's like this. We have already had three episodes of this program. How do you feel about it? The response from the live audience has been very enthusiastic, and there has been a lot of discussion online. The public response has been good."

President Han nodded repeatedly: "That's true. Every time I stand on the side, the cheers from the audience almost deafen me."

Long Danni smiled and continued, "Yes, everyone is looking forward to our innovative music variety show, but there may be a small problem with the funds behind the scenes. As you know, after the recording of the second episode, an investor suddenly withdrew his investment. Maybe this made our boss a little worried about the prospects of the program..."

Long Danni wanted to continue explaining a few more words, keeping silent about her little trick, trying to change the subject, but before she could finish a few words, President Han raised his hand to stop her: "Ah, President Zhou just told me about this matter. President Long, you have to understand that the ideas of those big leaders above are not something that can be decided by a good person like me who just acts as a decoration all day long."

"What... why do you say that? You are not a decoration..." The smile on Long Danni's face froze.

"Really? I thought that's what Mr. Long always said about me." Mr. Han smiled as if he was in a good mood. "If you don't want others to know, then don't do it. Forget about the gossip about me. I have a good temper, so I just treat it as a joke. But Mr. Long is not clean when it comes to the stage and us singers. You are too unkind."

"Well, we are colleagues after all. President Long, I can only remind you to do a good job in the next issue. That is the last issue. If something goes wrong again, President Zhou will be even more unhappy. Oh, and apologize. Things have already happened and cannot be undone, but at least we should show our sincerity to others, right? That's it. If there is nothing else urgent, I will go back to eat. You should also have dinner early, so as not to get hungry."

As Mr. Han spoke, he opened the car door and turned on the car's Bluetooth speaker, which happened to be playing Su Xing's "Real Time 2020".

He smiled, waved to Long Danni, and drove away.

After breathing a mouthful of car exhaust, Long Danni's face turned green with anger.

If she had known this would happen, she should not have invited those out-of-date stars because of their past friendship. Nothing good would happen to her if she met them. She didn't get the traffic she wanted at all. Instead, they became more and more popular.

Her show was cancelled, and she had to apologize to Su Xing? Thinking of this, Long Danni's face was terribly gloomy. If an apology could save the show, it would be fine. She, Long Danni, could bend and stretch for the sake of profit. The key point was that even if she apologized, the show was already cancelled. Her apology was just to pave the way for the big boss above and fulfill his interests.

She could only swallow her anger because her thin arms and legs made it impossible for her to wrestle with a penguin.

Long Danni's heart was bleeding, but she had to contact Ma Hao.

Ma Hao's behind-the-scenes filming has been completed and preparations for interviews are being organized.

This time, the seven people from 07+ were sitting neatly in the not-so-spacious preparation room. This was a rare opportunity, and while Su Xing and Wang Zhengliang were both there, Ma Hao wanted to go on stage himself again to embarrass them, but was interrupted by Long Danni.

With some reluctance, Ma Hao could only regretfully give up this opportunity to find fault. Anyway, she could continue to "interview" them in the next episode.

But she didn't expect that Long Danni would tell her that the next episode would be the last one, their show would be cancelled, and they had to apologize to them!

Why!

"If it weren't for them, how could our show be cancelled and we have to apologize to them?" As good as they are, Ma Hao and Long Danni actually thought the same thing.

"I can't help it. The higher-ups are keeping an eye on this. I suspect that hypocritical President Han is behind this. Damn it, he's actually a fan of Su Xing! This bastard who says one thing in front of others and another behind their backs looks harmless on the surface, but he's actually a hypocritical villain. He must have whispered in President Zhou's ears!"

Long Danni gritted her teeth.

"Apologize if you want, but don't expect us to be on camera. Let's wait until the interview is over..."

Before she could finish her words, a staff member came up to them and interrupted her with some hesitation and embarrassment.

"Boss Long, Boss Ma, 07+ wants an explanation for today's stage accident..."

"What? They still have the nerve to ask for an explanation!" Ma Hao blurted out. She wanted to curse a word or two, but when she saw the staff member, she held it back and turned to look at Long Danni.

Long Danni did not expect that those seven people would bring this matter up on the table during the interview. She was so angry that she almost vomited blood. It was obvious that they wanted her to apologize in front of the camera.

That's right, Yu Yu doesn't plan to wait until privately to discuss this matter, even though the brothers seem to be ready to resolve it privately. After all, it would be a bit embarrassing to bring up such a matter directly in front of the camera.

Yu Yu usually looks like a Buddha lying flat, but if he is provoked, he will become brave, tough and stubborn. In his opinion, since they have already lost their shame, why should he give them any face or kindness?

The brothers are decent good people. There are some things they are soft-hearted and unwilling to do. It doesn’t matter. Yu Yu’s heart is as hard as a rock. He can be an indecent bad guy.

So when preparing for the interview, when the topic came to stage performance, after others had finished teasing and praising each other's performances, Yu Yu got straight to the point:

"I think our performance was successful despite the microphone problem. I won't say it was perfect to avoid making you guys proud, but regarding this stage accident, I really want to ask our production team what they think? How do you think we handled it?"

As soon as Yu Yu said this, Lu Hu and Wang Yuexin looked at him in surprise. Zhang Yuan widened his eyes, shrugged slightly, shrank into the chair and took a breath. Wang Zhengliang couldn't help laughing out loud, and he quickly clenched his fists and lowered his head to cover it up.

Chen Qisheng and Su Xing smiled faintly and looked straight at the program crew members in front of them.

The person who originally asked the question became the one being asked the question. The interviewing lady looked embarrassed and said, "Well, I personally think that you are very good and I can't tell that there is any problem with the microphone..."

Yu Yu raised her index finger and answered before Su Xing could speak: "Didn't you notice that your microphone was muted? It's okay, I can remind you that it's Su Xing's microphone."

"Of course, this problem has nothing to do with you, and I have no intention of holding you accountable. Sorry, my tone was a little harsh because such a question arose during such a wonderful performance by my brother. I hope you don't mind."

Yu Yu's tone returned to its usual gentleness and friendliness. There was no sense of oppression or impatience in his eyes when he looked at the young lady. His deep blue eyes seemed to be smiling, like a breeze that could smooth out all wrinkles, making people unconsciously intoxicated and affected by it.

"I know this question is a bit sudden. If you are not sure how to answer it, can you help us ask someone who knows how to explain it, such as Sister Hao, or Sister Danny?"

Su Xing covered his mouth with one hand and gave Yu Yu a subtle thumbs up with the other hand.