Over at Lu BoYang’s, the situation was not good at all.
The public opinion over the incident yesterday ended up leaning entirely in one direction. As such, early this morning, at the start of business, Shengding Entertainment made an official annoucement on Weibo clarifying the entire incident along with an apology letter to Yu LeLe’s Studio.
The truth had seen the light of day and it did not end well for Shengding Entertainment.
Even though a round of negative publicity online wasn’t sufficient to bring down this top dog in the industry, Shengding Entertainment sustained quite a bit of loss nonetheless
“Our company’s stock dropped to its limit down as soon as the market opened today. It was estimated that that would happen one or two more times before the price stabilizes again. In addition, five companies, including Dongteng and Huayang, decided to stop further investments on a few of our television shows and variety shows…” said Chen Ang inside the president’s office with a serious look.
“Mmm.” Having heard that, Lu BoYang nodded and said, “Cancel the achievements for Marketing Department and Operations for the month. In addition, we should have found out who in which department was responsible for this by now, right? Have that person fired.”
“Em…”
“Problems?”
“Yes, we have, indeed, found out who the culprit was. Except that,” after a little bit of hesitation, Chen Ang finally said, “It was Lin XiaoXiao.”
“Who?”
“Ugh, Lin XiaoXiao. She was the one referred by Lin Xing, ugh, Mrs. Song and she’s also Mrs. Song’s cousin.”
“You mean XingEr?” Hearing that, Lu BoYang’s face darkened.
The mentioning of Lin XingEr irritated Lu BoYang all of a sudden.
Lin XingEr called him again yesterday. As usual, she complained about how Song ZeYu was not nice to her and how upset she was.
It was starting to get annoying.
He had known Song ZeYu for a much longer time he did Lin XingEr. He had, once, had special feelings for Lin XingEr but those were gone when she had chosen Song ZeYu.
They may not be able to become lovers, but they could still be friends.
What Lu BoYang didn’t understand was if Song ZeYu liked Lin XingEr that much and even married her, what was with the cold shoulders not longer after the wedding and not paying Lin XingEr any attention?
And then there was Lin XingEr. As much as Lu BoYang has once had feelings for her but, over time, when she had complained to him over and over again and sometimes even hysterically, no good impression could survive that.
All in all, the two of them were nothing but headaches to him right now.
“So what? She made a mistake and if we need to fire her, we shall,” said Lu BoYang. His voice was cold and left no room for negotiation.
He snickered and added, “So what if she is Lin XingEr’s cousin? If she has problems she can always turn to her cousin-in-law over at the Song’s. Is Shengding in the recycling business or am I a garbage collector?”
He had no idea whether Lin XingEr would call him later on to complain or not.
He could always ban her calls.
***
Over on the other side, Mr. Lu, who had disappeared all night long, finally returned to his residence.
“Sir, you are back.” Zhou Fu, who had been waiting by the door, took a step up and took the jacket from Lu Shao when he saw him.
Zhou Fu studied Lu Shao’s look carefully as the two of them talked.
Then, he found out to his surprise that Lu Shao, who left the house enraged yesterday was now completely calm. Not a bit of anger or displeasure could be seen.
In fact… if he wasn’t wrong. He even saw a slight smile on his boss?
As bizarre as that may be, Zhou Fu felt relieved that Lu Shao was no longer angry. He quickly handed the document that he had put together overnight to him.
“Sir, this is the report that you have requested to be done overnight on Miss Su, ugh, Ms. Su Ran. It’s the list of customers that she had served over the years.”