Chapter 76

  The ceiling light in the corridor has been broken for a week. Although it was reported for repair, the maintenance worker was negative and lazy, and never came.

  As a result, everyone in the company became doubly cautious, fearing that they might accidentally bump into someone in the dimly lit corridor.

  Today is cloudy, and the corridor is even darker. Even if it's not dark enough to stretch out your hand and not see five fingers, the visibility is still very low.

  But this is the only way to go to the elevator.

  Li Jin stopped in her tracks.

  In the dark distance, a figure leaned against the wall, a red glow in the darkness, and the faint scent of tobacco wafted through the air.

  "Go take a look at him." Without needing to see the person's face clearly, Li Jin knew who it was. "I just punched him twice, one punch... landed on his face. Next week he still has to meet people, having injuries on his face isn't good."

  "Don't hit him in the face since you know he's injured." Qi Yichen hummed, the cigarette in his hand burning out, which he casually threw to the ground and stepped on. "Besides, I'm not needed, Xiao Susu just went in."

  "What's Xiao Su saying?" Li Jin's eyebrows furrowed for a moment, and then she understood, "When did that happen?"

  "Who knows." Qi Yichen sneered.

  Li Jin smiled.

  In the darkness, Qi Yichen seemed to have his heart exposed, and he turned his head away in an attempt to cover it up. Li Jin became even more certain, lightly asking him as if inquiring about the weather or food: "Yichen, do you want to win the championship?"

  The air on Ziyichen's side suddenly condensed into coldness.

  This question is extremely simple, yet extremely difficult. In the darkness, Li Jin only heard his suddenly elevated breathing sound echoing in the air like a drumbeat. He thought for a long time, so long that Li Jin thought he wouldn't answer again, but then he suddenly let out a faint laugh with an unclear meaning.

  It's as if all sorts of emotions have been submerged in this smile.

  "Who doesn't want to be the champion?" said Qi Yichen, "Who participates in this competition if not for the championship? Even if one can remain rational at first, who dares to say with a clear conscience that they don't want to be the champion at this point?"

  Li Jin smiled silently, but didn't respond.

  But Qī Yǐ Chén stopped for a moment, and then laughed self-deprecatingly: "However, I know that this championship is not destined to be mine."

  "Oh?" Li Jin was very surprised, "Why?"

  "I sing rock, but the style is too narrow and the audience is limited. Letting me be the champion can't convince everyone," said Qi Yichen.

  Li Jin couldn't help but laugh.

  "You're quite self-aware." He lifted his foot and, as he passed by Qi Yichen's side, couldn't help but pat him on the shoulder before walking straight to the elevator.

  It wasn't until the elevator had taken people down quietly for a long time that Qi Yichen suddenly came to his senses and heavily punched the wall.

  "For Pete's sake, I'm telling you this, it's not for winning a championship!"

  But why?

  This is a problem that Lian Qi Yi Chen himself can't figure out.

  It's easier to deal with than expected, taking care of what needs to be taken care of. Those in charge will turn a blind eye as long as things don't get out of hand, after all, it's a market economy now and the masses have their own right to choose information. As long as you're not too over-the-top, we can't control that much anyway.

  Then Li Jin focused on various media.

  The media can be quite vicious, this time the news is explosive and full of sensational details, even ordinary celebrity gossip can't compare to this. As a result, reporters from various houses were like they had been injected with chicken blood, surrounding and chasing after Luo Fei, and even people who had connections with Luo Fei couldn't avoid being interrogated. Li Jin's two mobile phones were used so much that three batteries were drained in one day.

  In the circle, there is a systematic way to deal with such scandals. Lu Xiaoyun himself said he was an expert in this regard. Without waiting for Li Jin to speak, he had already listed out the activities, announcements and interviews that Luo Fei would attend. When Li Jin contacted the seniors in the circle, hoping they would come forward to help, he cooperated fully. One day, he even personally put a media draft on Li Jin's desk, smiling, and asked him to review it.

  Li Jinchao handed the draft back to him after a quick scan and thanked him: "Thanks for your hard work."

  "It's not hard work." Lu Xiao Yun smiled and said, "I'll just work a bit harder, drag it out for a couple of months, and things will settle down. It's actually the agent, Li Jing, who needs to hurry up, or else he won't make it in time."

  After finishing speaking, she still sympathetically gave him a glance.

  It was only the second day of their one-week appointment, but Lu Xiayun was so determined to be sad, as if he had foreseen the scene where he would roll up his bedding and leave.

  Regret losing two molars in the back of my mouth.

  Li Jincheng later asked Bei Fuming about Lu Xiao Yun's background. Bei Fuming couldn't say much, only that Lu Xiao Yun graduated from a famous university and gave up being a high-ranking executive in a multinational corporation to join the entertainment industry. He was arrogant, but somehow got along with Qin Yige and Wang Ba Lü Dou, and was hired by Qin Yige as the manager of the public relations department with a high salary.

  As for why he was so targeted at Li Jin, Bai Fu laughed loudly and told him not to take it to heart. Throughout the entire company, Lu Xiuyun looked up to no one except himself and Qin Yige, and would have liked everyone else to quit and go home, just to get out of his way.

  But Li Jin always felt it wasn't that simple.

  Lu Xiaoyun's ability is indeed very high, with his full assistance, Luo Fei's incident is being settled at an astonishing speed. On the third day of the week, both mainstream and non-mainstream media stopped focusing on Luo Fei, and for the first time, Luo Fei's gossip news was removed from the headline position of various entertainment websites.

  But things have come to an impasse here.

  Although the news is no longer hot, its impact has not diminished. A survey conducted by a certain website shows that more than 30% of viewers are disappointed with China's Star Voice, and another 20% of viewers say they will never watch the final of China's Star Voice. The activity of fans on Lu Fei's official website, Weibo, WeChat and other interactive platforms has also decreased significantly, which in turn affects the popularity of the top four contestants of Star Voice.

  That is to say, in the hearts of most audiences, they believe that Luo Fei's father is indeed a black society that does evil deeds, and they even extend their disgust to Luo Fei.

  That's why Lu Xiao Yun was so certain that Li Jin couldn't turn things around within a week.

  You can't control the audience's true likes and dislikes, only time can alleviate this emotion.

  Later in the afternoon of this day, Bei Furen took a document and walked into Li Jin's office.