170: Chapter 17 Helping Out

Zhang Yu asked uncertainly, "Sir, are you the one who needs these discs?"

She took the discs out from her arms, shook them briefly, and then pulled them back.

Chen Shaoping felt a chill in his heart; the woman before him had a haggard and aged face, looking like a completely different person from those glamorous promotional photos online.

The traces of time and suffering on her body were particularly shocking.

"Are you sure these are the videos of you being... intimate with those directors?"

"That's right, it's these. I have no reason to lie to you, nor do I dare to."

Chen Shaoping looked at the woman in front of him; he didn't quite believe her claim about not daring to lie to him.

A mother desperate enough to want to take her child with her when she left this world would indeed do anything for that child.

But it was precisely for the child that she needed this money most right now, making it even less likely she would lie to him.

"Fine, then let's make the deal."

Chen Shaoping transferred 200,000 to Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu gave the discs to Chen Shaoping.

She gripped her phone tightly, looking at the payment notification. Tears welled up again, but this time they were tears of joy.

She couldn't wait to get back to her son and tell him this wonderful news.

Chen Shaoping had just turned and taken two steps when Zhang Yu's voice came from behind him again.

"Sir, can I ask what you're going to use these videos for?" Zhang Yu walked out again.

"Are you worried I'll expose them and people will recognize you?" Chen Shaoping turned back and asked.

"No. If you dragged me in front of the media now and said I was the woman in the videos, people would probably think you were crazy."

Zhang Yu mocked herself, though in her heart, she still hoped those beasts in human skin would be punished.

I just... I have a lump in my chest after all, a bit of resentment... Ah! Forget it, it's all in the past.

After saying that, she stepped back into the house and shut the door tightly.

Chen Shaoping shook his head and turned to leave.

Meanwhile.

At Tongxing Entertainment Company in Yangcheng.

Li Qian looked at the computer screen, the corners of her mouth curling up unconsciously, as her sense of mystery regarding Chen Shaoping deepened.

He could even predict future events?

Online, a screenwriter named Gu Er suddenly broke the news that the script for the TV series "fan hua" was written by him.

He even posted several audio recordings.

Furthermore, these were recordings of meetings made by Qin Wenwen. She had sent the recordings directly to Gu Er, telling him to create the script based on the meeting contents.

Gu Er stayed up all night to finish the script. The next day, Qin Wenwen took it and told everyone she had stayed up all night writing it.

In the recordings, Wang Jiawei and Qin Wenwen were constantly bad-mouthing other actors.

"A certain actress is so fake."

"A certain veteran artist in their 90s is not a simple person, just because the teacher likes posting on Friend Circle."

Qin Wenwen even called her own mentor a 'hypocrite' who often recommended books to her that he hadn't even read himself.

Wang Jiawei explicitly stated that he wanted to get a certain actress surnamed Jin into bed.

"..."

Li Qian knew that Chen Shaoping had bet two hundred million at the time. If she had known this explosive content in advance, she would have dared to bet too.

Netizens following the gossip flocked to the Qingbo pages of the actors who were bad-mouthed to leave comments.

"Yan! They say you're very fake. How are you fake? Let us see."

"Beauty Jin, I finally know why you clearly acted in 'fan hua' but didn't have a single second of screen time. It's because you didn't let that old poser get his way. I'm a fan from now on."

"Chairman Chen—Qin Wenwen's mentor, will your female disciple's TV series be taken down? I heard there are two more series written by her about to air. Will you let them pass?"

"Have you checked carefully whether these two series also used ghostwriters?"

Of course, the ones getting the most abuse from netizens were Qin Wenwen and Wang Jiawei.

Both of their public personas had collapsed.

Many of their friends were likely deleting them right now, fearing that even posting on Friend Circle would lead to being bad-mouthed by the two.

The two people involved were currently furious and had begun blaming each other.

"You stupid pig! How could you send a recording like that to an outsider? Now look, we're both finished."

"I'm old, I'll just consider myself retired. But what about you? Who's going to want your scripts in the future? Are you going to be a ghostwriter for others?"

Wang Jiawei roared in anger, his finger almost poking Qin Wenwen's face.

Qin Wenwen slapped his hand away and said, refusing to be intimidated, "I told you to pay him, to pay him!"

"You kept delaying. If you had paid him, would he have done something so desperate as to burn both bridges?"

"So you're saying this is my fault?" Wang Jiawei swept a teacup off the table with a palm strike, and it shattered into pieces on the floor with a clatter.

"When you couldn't write anything and came begging me to help you find a way, why didn't you say that?"

"Ungrateful wretch."

Qin Wenwen squatted down crying to pick up the porcelain shards, her tone softening.

"What's done is done. What should we do now?"

Wang Jiawei adjusted his sunglasses and calmed down, pondering what to do next.

He couldn't completely fall out with Qin Wenwen.

The two of them knew too much dirt on each other. If they really tore into each other, it wouldn't just be a matter of being scolded by netizens online.

They would both end up in prison.

After a moment, he said heavily, "This matter can only be handled with the silent treatment. Neither of us can go out and respond."

"As time goes by, the matter will fade. As long as we show our faces, no matter what we say, it will only increase the heat of the situation."

"Are we just going to let Gu Er go like that?" Qin Wenwen couldn't take it. Since she was having a hard time, she didn't want Gu Er to have it easy either.

"Let him go? I'd like to kill him."

"First, contact a few trustworthy self-media accounts to start a small-scale campaign against Gu Er's character. Attack him for being untrustworthy and a despicable, shameless villain."

"It's not suitable for too many people to attack Gu Er at the start. After all, he's the underdog. We'll take it slow."

"In the meantime, find people to report his videos and get all the videos he posted taken down."

With Wang Jiawei's series of moves, Gu Er likely wouldn't have a good outcome either.

A trace of a smile finally appeared on Qin Wenwen's face, and her gaze toward Wang Jiawei held a mix of mockery and admiration.

This man in front of her who loved to act cool with sunglasses might not be good at directing, but his brain worked well for other things.

She immediately expressed her agreement. "I'll arrange it right away."

"Go ahead."

The change in Qin Wenwen's expression made the man in sunglasses very happy, feeling like he had successfully shown off again.

Chen Shaoping returned to the CCTV Tower after finishing his business, which had taken him over two hours.

He had also gone to a nearby computer mall to buy an external optical drive.

Back at the hotel, he used his laptop to copy the videos from the discs and sent them to his phone.

One of the videos even gave him a huge surprise.

"Where did you just go?"

Zhang Ying asked, looking at Chen Shaoping, who was currently fanning her.

"I went out to take care of some business and met someone."

Chen Shaoping answered, his hands moving a bit faster.

"How is it? Is today's rehearsal not over yet?"

"Oh. Today's situation isn't very ideal, and as we were rehearsing, the head director added more things."

"We have to do it again. Right now is just a mid-rehearsal break."

"It's been hard on you, Darling."

"How is it on Wang Bo's side?"

"Not great either, but it should be better than your side."

The two continued chatting, and the fifteen-minute break quickly came to an end.

"Teacher Zhang, let's begin," Director Dai called out.

"Okay, coming!" Zhang Ying stood up, and immediately staff members came over to help hold the long train of her formal gown.

After taking two steps, she looked back at Chen Shaoping with a face full of concern.

"Darling, if you're tired, you can just go back to the hotel and wait for us."

"Mm, okay, I know."

After Zhang Ying left, Chen Shaoping took out his phone and had just opened the Douyin short video app.

The incident with Qin Wenwen and Wang Jiawei's recording popped up.

After Chen Shaoping finished watching, a mischievous smile spread across his face.

"Gu Er, since you've already started hammering that sunglasses-wearing poser and Qin Wenwen..."

"I, Shao Ping, must definitely lend a hand."