My Notoriety Spreads Throughout the World
Chapter 197 183: Rules
Moon Sugar, a product originating from the high skies of Nest City, is derived through industrial processing from the extract of Arc Flower.
Initially, it was mostly the petals of Arc Flower mixed with the crushed powder of Red Silk Wood, used as incense for meditation by the beast monks over there, to provide a calming and focusing effect.
Later, it was discovered that the extract from the petals had strong analgesic, mood-enhancing, and stimulating effects, with a certain alchemical value. Dream Company recognized its potential value, and thus a health product named 'Moon Sugar' began to circulate widely within Gao Tianyun.
Gao Tianyun does not belong to the territory of Cosmic Heavy Industries within Nest City but is located in the starry skies above Chichu Heaven. Due to its addictive nature, Cosmic Heavy Industries initially strictly prohibited the circulation of this Moon Sugar, but because of the profit behind it, many smugglers risked bringing it into Chichu Heaven and quickly spread it through various channels into other Nest Cities within the range of Cosmic Heavy Industries.
Subsequently, many family seats within Cosmic Heavy Industries internally approved the import agreement with Gao Tianyun, compromising with the huge interests within, tacitly allowing the import of Moon Sugar, resulting in a large influx of such products into the market, ultimately becoming uncontrollable. In the shadows of the city, it was common to see Sugarmen convulsing and rolling around like dogs, high on Moon Sugar.
"Sister Chen..." Lin Fan said numbly.
"Don't call me Sister Chen, do you know what kind of trouble you've caused for the company!?" The woman roared.
This was probably Chen Yan's most depressing day, already exhausted by the midlife crisis, today even more worried with handfuls of hair falling out, upon finding out that the artist she had poured everything into training was secretly taking Moon Sugar, that moment her world collapsed.
The regulations in "Starry Melody" did not explicitly prohibit the circulation of products like Moon Sugar, and some artists secretly used it for inspiration in their creations, but everyone knew the huge harm behind it. If a Tuner happened across a Moon Sugar transaction, smugglers would be invited to the Tuning Institute for tea, meaning no one would publicly talk about it as a circulable contraband.
The company had spared no resources to promote new-generation artists, yet they got involved with such things and were exposed online, the negative impact on the company's image was self-evident, and even she as a manager would be deeply implicated.
Now the entire Rongsen Media's public relations are desperately operating, the overwhelming public opinion on the curtains making the big investors at the company's top restless, the whole society pressuring them, this is Rongsen Media's largest public relations crisis in its thirty years since its establishment.
"Do you know how severe a loss the company will suffer because of this? Do you know how my career will fall into an ice valley because of you?"
"I'm sorry Sister Chen, I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do..." Lin Fan painfully covered his face.
His life should have been smooth sailing, why did it turn out like this?
Ever since that night, being exposed for lip-syncing and insulting fans on the stage in Queens District, his life seemed to have reached the pinnacle of a roller coaster and started plummeting down, everything heading in the worst direction.
Fans on social platforms treated him coldly, people around him ridiculed him, the disappointed look from the company's higher-ups was still vivid.
The massive fan count on social platforms of yesteryear was dropping daily, every morning upon waking, seeing tens of thousands of fans lost overnight, he would develop a certain unsettling panic, as if everything he owned atop the mountain was slipping through his fingers, and he couldn't change anything.
All he had was a good-looking face, his singing talent was astonishingly bad, every time he tried to improve himself, he abandoned it in resignation when he couldn't see results.
Originally holding the idea of giving it his all despite the company's upper echelons' obstruction to participate in the audition, he didn't even make it through the first round before that damn redhead gave him a zero score, thinking of this, Lin Fan gritted his teeth, his gaze malicious.
It was all that damn redhead's fault, it was that guy named Everme who ruined his life, it all shouldn't be like this!
If it weren't for him, and that person named Tang Xin, he wouldn't have resorted to touching these things due to a gloomy mood.
Why did that contestant named Tang Xin get full marks? Why was she the daughter of Stars, watched by the starry sky, held in the palms by countless people?
Obviously, the other party was just as bad as himself, thinking of that guy named Tang Xin also being exposed as a filthy underground idol because of that online video, at the moment being cursed by countless people, he felt a strange psychological comfort, his expression slightly twisted.
Suddenly, he seemed to collapse, desperately sobbing and crawling to the woman's side, hugging her leg, wrapped in flesh-colored stockings, slippery. He couldn't hold on at first, so he hugged several more times.
"Help me Sister Chen, save me, you can definitely save me, right? Like before, help me pacify the public opinion, everything will return to yesterday, right?"
The woman disdainfully slapped Lin Fan on the face again, leaving his fair face bruised and swollen like a pig's head, then forcibly pulled her leg out.
Lin Fan sobbed and fell to the ground, countless girls surrounding him, trying to help him up.
"You're finished, Lin Fan, I'm telling you you're finished! Just wait for the company's prosecution. Your life's over, no one can save you!"
Hearing this, Lin Fan was utterly hopeless, lying dazed on the ground.
The girls gathered around, trying to comfort him, but he yelled at them with crude, vulgar language, driving them away, eventually leaving him alone in the room.
Chen Yan stepped out in high heels, quickened her pace all the way out of the room, the heels of her towering shoes striking a crisp tempo on the ground, the sound echoing in the empty hallway.
An assistant chased after her, whispering a few words in her ear, Chen Yan frowned slightly, motioned she understood, then headed to the other end of the corridor, soon entering a room.
The man in the room seemed to be on a call with the curtain discussing the company's current situation.
Seeing the woman enter, the man hesitated, then shouted in reprimand:
"Do you know how big a trouble you've caused this time! Now the whole company is overwhelmed because of this issue."
The latter said nothing, but simply took off her female suit, then skillfully untied and casually tossed the white shirt's tie aside, slowly leaned in and forcibly pushed the man toward the edge of the desk.
"You take my benefits, you have to help me." The woman's red lips kissed the man, somewhat burning, pushing the man's body downward.
"Don't worry, it's nothing serious." The man cleared his throat, his voice carrying a magnetic quality. "Seeing your attitude, it will soon be resolved."
The expensive, vivid peacock-feather-like female suit was draped over the sofa, red high heels scattered arbitrarily, a black bow tie lay quietly beside it, the green leaves of the office's potted plants swayed under the pale light, the curtain still blinking red light during the communication.