Becoming a great entertainer started with being cyberbullied.

Liu Pingwei was stunned.

Zhou Wen's words were like a nuclear reactor to him—dangerous and hard to understand.

"What do you mean?" Liu Pingwei asked, frowning.

Zhou Wen took a deep breath and began to recount the events of that year.

"Back then, your affair with Shen Xuanxuan caused quite a stir."

"One evening, my teacher's wife came to see me, dragging a small suitcase."

"She said she was going abroad and didn't want to stay in the country anymore..."

At that time, Zhou Wen, being a woman herself, was both angry and sympathetic to the plight of others like herself.

Is fame and fortune all like honey laced with poison?

Once obtained, is a person destined to be 'completely changed'?

Zhou Wen's eyes were red, but in that instant, he understood too many things.

But it is precisely because I have figured it out that I don't know whether I should tell that... cruel truth.

As Zhou Wenyue remained silent, Liu Pingwei's brows furrowed even more deeply.

"Didn't she immigrate abroad?"

"Ah!"

Whenever his ex-wife was mentioned, he couldn't help but glare at her, yet he was also concerned about what Zhou Wen had just said.

Fang Ruoxi looked at Director Liu, who was clearly concerned but pretending not to.

Director Zhou is not going to say anything more.

He shook his head and refused to say anything more.

Seeing her tearful face, Liu Pingwei was so angry that his heart, liver, and lungs ached.

"Good good!"

"You're all good people, and I'm the only bad one, right?!"

After saying that, he stormed off, forgetting to take the script with him.

Zhou Wencai burst into tears after Liu Pingwei left.

Chen Hong and Zhou Wen have a very good relationship. Seeing Director Zhou crying like this, I'm really worried that something might happen to her.

Fang Ruoxi later went online to look up Director Liu's 'scandal'.

Some entertainment media accounts are still posting these old stories.

A famous director who almost won an Oscar ended up sleeping with a girl who was just over twenty.

Some commenters said that his wife divorced him because she found out he was having an affair.

But now, could there be some hidden story behind this?

After Liu Pingwei left, Director Zhou caught his breath and decided to say something.

She held the tissues Chen Hong had given her, pulling them out one by one, saying, "Teacher, Teacher's wife said she'd go abroad, but she won't let me tell the teacher."

"I was angry at the time, angry at the teacher for being heartless, so I really kept quiet."

"Two years ago, Tianze went to that country on a business trip. I thought of my teacher's wife, so I asked him to visit her on his way..."

“The person is long gone… He passed away less than two months after we went abroad; it was from cancer.”

She choked up again as she said this.

The three of them looked at each other in bewilderment.

Thinking back to Director Liu's previous words, a heartbreaking guess came to mind.

"No way... that lady only decided to get a divorce after she found out she had cancer, right...?" Li Ming guessed dryly.

Zhou Wen nodded.

Chen Hong was baffled. "No way! Then why did she get a divorce?? She should have been honest with her family about this! Who can understand this?!"

Zhou Wen shook his head slightly.

Fang Ruoxi recalled the old news she had found online before...

"I'm afraid... there were news reports at that time saying that Director Liu was preparing a new film and was planning to compete for the Oscars again."

As Liu's beloved wife, she must be worried that her illness would interfere with her husband's work.

Another point is that at that time, Director Liu had already begun contacting Shen Xuanxuan regarding casting.

"Furthermore, a person who learns that they have a terminal illness is extremely vulnerable."

"She is also prone to extremes. Perhaps it was some dubious news that led her to keep that divorce agreement."

Zhou Wen shook his head, "No, my master's wife knew she didn't have long to live and that there was no cure, so she left behind divorce papers and left."

"When Tianze found the cemetery, the tombstone was covered with moss, and no one had visited it for a long time."

The thought of his teacher's wife suffering from a terminal illness and dying young far from home... before closing his eyes, he saw no relatives or friends around him, and the person he loved most had married someone else...

Zhou Wen felt heartbroken.

“Because…” Zhou Wen pinched the corner of his eye, about to continue.

A voice asked in a daze, "What did you say? Zhou Wen, who did you say died young in a foreign land?"

Everyone in the room was horrified.

Looking in the direction of the sound, they saw that it was Liu Pingwei, who had left, returning.

Noticing that Director Liu's expression was off, Li Ming quickly stepped forward to stop him.

Liu Pingwei's eyes were horribly red, and the veins on his forehead were bulging blue. "Zhou Wen!! What exactly happened back then—"

The sound stopped suddenly.

Liu Pingwei fainted.

"Call an ambulance quickly!" Chen Hong shouted as she frantically pulled out her phone.

Zhou Wen is too old to talk about anything exciting.

Seeing that she looked unwell, Chen Hong immediately took her phone and called Zang Tianze.

"Hey? Xiao Zang, your mom isn't feeling well. Are you off work yet? Come pick her up from the company!"

Just then, Zou Rong rushed up excitedly.

Zou Rong's first words were: "Holy crap! Something terrible has happened! I've been yelling in the company group chat for ages, and nobody's responding?!"

Then he saw a group of people cautiously surrounding a person lying on the ground.

Zou Rong: "..."

Zou Rong: "What's going on? Wait, wait a minute! This old man isn't that Liu Liu Liu..."

"What's wrong with him?"

"It's nothing, he just fainted from the shock," Fang Ruoxi said softly as she walked over and pulled Zou Rong aside.

"I just asked the hospital, and they said it might be caused by your blood pressure rising too quickly... What happened to you?"

Zou Rong breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh my god, that scared me to death. I thought the old man had seen the news online and died of anger here."

He took out his phone, opened a webpage, and pointed to the dark headline—

[Spoilers for Liu Pingwei's new drama!]

This is a blog by a prominent celebrity paparazzi.

Fang Ruoxi looked down.

The following article is concise and to the point. It begins by stating that Liu Pingwei's new film is aimed at winning an Oscar to make up for the regret of 40 years ago.

Then, it was revealed directly that the new work is a romance.

At this point, the person who wrote this blog post also mentioned that Director Liu narrowly lost to Bolton Fleming back then.

Ironically, this time, the two directors are once again 'coincidentally' preparing to compete for the same Oscar.

This time, Director Liu is directing a genre he has never touched before—a romance film.

Bolton Fleming, on the other hand, entered the competition with a war romance film.

Yes, Bolton Fleming has submitted his work to the Academy Awards committee.

Such a dramatic event truly resonated with the tastes of the vast majority of Chinese people.

Soon after, the post went viral and became a trending topic.

Fang Ruoxi breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this, "Thank goodness, it's not all..."

Before he could finish speaking, the post was updated again.

The latest update is that this entertainment account posted two screenshots—

The screenshot shows a wad of shredded paper that has just been taken out of the shredder's wastebasket.

In the second screenshot, the shredded paper has been pieced back together.

The above content is clearly visible and is the general plot of Liu Pingwei's work.

Zou Rong was also watching.

Upon seeing this, his mind went blank, as if a thousand nuclear bombs had exploded.

"This...this looks so much like our company..."

Fang Ruoxi closed her eyes briefly, quickly calmed down, and immediately said, "Go and check the company's surveillance footage from the past two days!"

Zou Rong was about to leave.

Then, the access control bell on the 13th floor rang.

"Has the ambulance arrived?"

Everyone rushed to open the door.

As a result, when the door opened, several police officers were standing outside.

"Hello, your company is suspected of maliciously leaking trade secrets. Who is the legal representative? Please come with us to the police station to cooperate with the investigation."