Edited by Noks and Qiuxue
The statement Zhao Wenyan posted on Xinghui Entertainment’s official Weibo account set off a public uproar.
Gao Yize’s death and the subsequent exposure of his dark history had damaged Xinghui Entertainment’s reputation to a certain degree. And now, with the announcement that they were terminating their contract with Su Fengxi, the damage they would face would only intensify.
But all of that was inconsequential.
Instead of just watching as Xinghui Entertainment lost its flesh and blood by continuing to support the tumorous Hongye Studio, the company’s senior executives were more willing to see Xinghui Entertainment’s reputation take a blow in light of these events.
Damage to their reputation and a fall in stock prices would only be temporary, and it would not take long to restore their image and bring up the share prices again.
Xinghui Entertainment Company held a position akin to that of the strong and solid behemoth in the capital. To this end, no one could even begin to imagine it no longer being involved in the entertainment industry.
Losing a first-rate actress didn’t mean that it would lose all its fortune. Xinghui Entertainment could easily arrange for a number of better-quality newcomers to join the industry within a short period of time.
The Public Relations Department quickly and efficiently responded to all the questions and inquiries that the public posed to them, repeatedly emphasizing the fact that they had completely separated paths from Su Fengxi. They also stressed to all media outlets and their business partners that there was no possibility of any cooperation, continued or new, with Su Fengxi in the future.
Xinghui Entertainment would stay away from all the projects that Su Fengxi participated in. In the same way, Su Fengxi wouldn’t be involved in any of the projects that Xinghui Entertainment invested in.
On the surface, the company had said that it was simply cutting off their relationship, but in fact—and this was something everyone in the entertainment circle knew—such a movewas equivalent to killing Su Fengxi off completely!
Xinghui Entertainment held a near-monopoly of the entertainment industry. It was just like its name—Xinghui—shining and splendid.
If Su Fengxi lost Xinghui’s support, it would become difficult for her to even put a step forward in this industry.
For quite a period of time, the news of Su Fengxi’s issues with the company that had employed her made waves and dominated the headlines in all forms of media.
One after another, members of the public continuously speculated about what had really happened between these two parties.
What was it that would compel Xinghui Entertainment to discard the goddess Su Fengxi—the apple of her employer’s eyes, the one they had once protected carefully in the palm of their hand— and push her into an incomparably dangerous position in the industry, one where she was left with no room to maneuver at all?
Since the company had made its moves, it naturally meant that Su Fengxi wouldn’t stay silent.
She bribed a few marketing accounts and several big public personalities to publish her version of the story, which said that she had fallen to her current position all because she had offended Xinghui Entertainment’s CEO’s lover.
She also added that the lover was male, and it was someone who had recently managed to restore his fallen image and regain his popularity in a rather strange way, a person who had bad temper and had on many occasions shown strong signs of jealousy, one who simply couldn’t tolerate her position of being the first-rate actress of the company.
She was merely a sacrifice offered up by Xinghui’s CEO in order to appease this lover—a victim of the unspoken rules.
The netizens who read this article soon thought of Fan Jialuo.
After all, only his circumstances seemed to match with that of a person who had recently fallen and then risen back up in the entertainment circle.
However, his reputation had been so good recently that even passersby were basically skeptical about any news article that defamed him without providing any evidence.
Moreover, Zhao Wenyan, the CEO of Xinghui Entertainment, had previously publicly stated that he had no ‘extra’ relationship with Fan Jialuo, and he had also confessed that he was a straight man with a girlfriend, whom he had been dating for many years now.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
When Fan Jialuo was being blackened by the entire netizen community, Zhao Wenyan chose to simply stand by idly and do nothing.
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Before the passersby could even think about the meaning of this sad expression, her fans started to bombard this comment with replies containing endless questions.
[Goddess, why are you crying? Is this article true? Xinghui Entertainment oppressed you because of Fan Jialuo’s jealousy?]
Su Fengxi did not reply with any words, and simply continued to post other sad expressions in reply to such questions, as if she had no other platform where she could express her pain and suffering.
In her fans’ eyes, this silent response of hers became all the proof they needed to confirm Fan Jialuo’s wrongdoings; thus, they became even more stimulated.
Oddly enough, the number of haters Su Fengxi had was very large, so large that they could be found almost everywhere on the Internet. However, she had die-hard fans as well, and their numbers were even more outrageous, with all of them carrying an attitude of fanatical worship towards her.
These fanatical fans immediately started to hate Fan Jialuo and Xinghui Entertainment, and began to condemn both parties in a large-scale organized attack.
[What kind of Personality Appraisal Machine is he? Are you blind? If he is a person with good character, then why can’t he stand someone being in a higher position than him? This is clearly a scheming bitch!]
[Xinghui Entertainment, you will regret it! Our Su Su is an international superstar, who can even match her? Who else has the level of influence and charisma she has? Did you ever count how much money Su Su made for you? You ungrateful people! You take Su Su, you make Su Su work hard for your gain, and now you spit her out!]
[Yes! If you want to save face, give back all the money that Su Su earned for you! You vicious and greedy capitalist people! And Fan Jialuo, I don’t care what kind of person you are, but if you mess with our Su Su, you must roll out of the entertainment circle!]
Su Fengxi’s fans began to mention the brilliant achievements she had made over the years, the pile of actress awards she had won, her renowned title of being the International Movie Queen, the movies and TV dramas she had participated in throughout this time, all of which was accompanied with a long list of numerous international directors and international superstars’ she had cooperated with, and so forth.
They also listed Fan Jialuo’s poor resume and compared it with Su Fengxi’s, then ridiculing the decision Zhao Wenyan had made, of picking up sesame seeds only to lose the watermelon.
Zhao Wenyan was angered quite a bit when he discovered that the situation had spun out of their control and had been twisted further from the truth in such a way.
Using his personal Weibo account, he published a post that stated—
[The termination between Xinghui Entertainment and Hongye Studios had been carried out solely to protect the interests of the company, and has nothing to do with any individual. Please do not speculate unnecessarily.]
Soon after posting that, he called the company’s Accounting Department and ordered them to create a document that listed all the money he had invested in Su Fengxi, and to then make this document public by publishing it on Xinghui’s official Weibo account.
He wanted to show everyone just what kind of person Su Fengxi really was.
With the long list of investments that Xinghui had made solely for Su Fengxi’s sake made public, those who were waiting for Xinghui to slap its own face were dumbfounded. Even passersby were stunned and could only click their tongues after going through this list.
Unexpectedly, Su Fengxi’s achievements in the past year all looked so splendid, but upon lifting the veil, its contents were truly tattered.
It was revealed that Zhao Wenyan had already begun to support Su Fengxi not long after her debut.
Her first movie was made with the cooperation of international directors as well as a first-rate Movie King, and the total amount invested in its production was 360 million yuan, yet the overall box office revenue was less than 200 million.
A terrible loss.
The second movie was made in cooperation with a first-class director from Hong Kong and a number of superstars, and it resulted in a loss of 100 million yuan.
After that, having her star in movies that always failed seemed to have cast a shadow on Zhao Wenyan, so he arranged for her to perform in TV dramas.
Because her acting skills were simply too embarrassing, the audience rating of this drama reached an all-new low. Its Douban rating was only 3.2. The rating was so terrible, even with the presence of other first-rate actors trained by Xinghui.
However, Zhao Wenyan still did not give up.
He smashed 60 million on public relations, so that Su Fengxi could smoothly win the best actress award, and then did the same for the many awards she won after that.
He had used money to build the so-called ‘Movie Queen Su Fengxi’. Perhaps because he felt that Su Fengxi was not suitable for acting, he invested a huge sum of money to form a marketing team that would solely create the ‘Goddess of Acting’ character for Su Fengxi.
Finally, by relying on her beautiful and alluring face along with all that Zhao Wenyan did for her from behind the scenes, she slowly ascended to the throne of outstanding first-tier celebrities…
Over the past few years, Zhao Wenyan had invested 2 to 3 billion yuan in Su Fengxi. However, after calculating the general ledger, not only did he not make any profit, he had lost a staggering 1.76 billion yuan in total!
Unexpectedly, Xinghui Entertainment also published the entirety of Su Fengxi’s contract.
The contract stated that the company wouldn’t take a single yuan of the money she earned. Instead, it even had to provide her with luxury cars, luxury houses, fancy clothes, jewelry, marketing teams, public relations teams, and other such celebrity amenities.
In summary, she easily gained every top-level resource that was available.
She squandered Xinghui’s funds and resources, earned a high salary that was not in line with her ability, and all without even needing to pay a single cent.
What kind of money tree is this? This is clearly a money shredder!
After reading these documents stating verified evidence, the netizens were fuming in anger!
[Where are Su Fengxi’s fans now? Why aren’t you talking? Look at your goddess’s “contribution” to Xinghui Entertainment over the years. If I was President Zhao, I would have kicked this woman to the other end of the galaxy eight hundred years ago, just like a meteor! It took him five years to tear through to your true face. Zhao Wenyan was more than good enough to you! Perhaps it’s true that President Zhao and Su Fengxi are in true love. It has nothing to do with Fan Jialuo at all!]
This comment quickly received tens of thousands of likes.
Of course, the passersby who were witnessing her ‘taking it for granted’ attitude in real-time felt disgust. The whole scenario was disgusting enough to nauseate anyone!
However, news that could destroy a person’s three views was soon published after this post.
Xinghui Entertainment had released Hongye Studio’s revenue status.
In recent years, Hongye Studio had taken a large number of top resources from Xinghui, but the money earned from these resources had not been distributed back to Xinghui. On top of that, they had even asked Xinghui to pay its taxes and various operating expenses.
In one instance, Su Fengxi appropriated 300 million yuan from Xinghui to invest in a film, and simply did not mention the issue of returning the original amount or even sharing any of the profits afterwards.
In her view, Xinghui Entertainment was not her employer, but an open purse from which she could demand any and everything.
No funds? She reached out to take them herself. No resources? She opened her mouth to say so. No contacts? She would grab whatever she wanted.
In her heart, she truly believed that Xinghui owed her everything.
After reading this statement, Su Fengxi fans continued to clamor, refuting that these documents were all false, but the passersby only saw them as people suffering from brain damage.
Su Fengxi had done such things all the way until this point. How could Zhao Wenyan have endured it for five years?
This is incredible!
[If I was President Zhao, I might have stabbed Su Fengxi. In five years, she took out several billion yuan and let the company lose money, but she herself managed to make a lot of money. Su Fengxi might not be good at filming, but she’s very good at holding money! In the end, what’s their relationship? If it’s not true love, who would be willing to give a woman so much money? President Zhao previously said that he had a stable relationship with his girlfriend. Wouldn’t this be Su Fengxi?]
[I’m so surprised after seeing the most terrifying gold digger in the entertainment industry!]
[What talented woman, the most influential actress and Movie Queen? These awards were bought with money! What a joke! Are Goddess Su’s fans still here? Hello there? Come out and list your goddess’s splendid (ridiculous) achievements!]
[Are they just terminating the contract? And there’s no compensation being given for the losses Xinghui Entertainment has suffered all these years? I think their approach is still too gentle! Su Fengxi is really terrible! Even if she quit now, the money taken from Xinghui Entertainment is enough for her to squander for a few generations!]
[Well, which company would be able to tolerate such a scourge? Su Fengxi’s response to the article is a sad emoji, an aggrieved expression. She threw the blame on Fan Jialuo. Her ability to act both miserable and scheming like this is so damn disgusting!]
[I already hated her. But after reading this, I hate her even more! She is pretentious, profit-seeking, unshakable and unworthy of morality. Xinghui Entertainment did feel regret—not regret for cutting ties with her, but regret for taking her in! President Zhao must have hit the nail on the head, he wouldn’t make such a reckless decision!]
[Su Fengxi, please roll out of my sight! From now on I don’t want to see your disgusting face on any screen!]
[Such a person should be blocked all over the Internet, right? Otherwise it will teach bad values to the children!]
[Eh, Fan Jialuo once said that the person he hated most in the entertainment industry was Su Fengxi. He also gave Su Fengxi the nickname “beauty snake”, and this just proves him right yet again! He’s not called a Personality Appraisal Machine for nothing!]
The majority of netizens began to attack Su Fengxi’s personal website. Her long-built fame, status, reputation, professionalism and moral integrity were thoroughly tarnished.
In just a short period of time, she fell from a first-rate actress to being the entertainment circle’s tumor.
Once Zhao Wenyan sobered up, his thunderous means were not something Su Fengxi could resist against.
Over the years, she had been held too gently by Zhao Wenyan and had forgotten just how terrible this man could be in reality.
However, regret always came late.
Zhao Wenyan soon published a lawyer’s letter on his personal Weibo account stating that Xinghui would sue Su Fengxi for the embezzlement of company funds.
The evidence was conclusive and all accounts had been made clear.
Since she had the big boss as her backer and was deeply convinced in the strength of her own charms, Su Fengxi had never once thought to conceal any traces of her embezzlement, and the total amount she had taken was astronomical.
Once Zhao Wenyan had made up his mind to sue her, there could only be one verdict.
If she was successfully convicted on such charges, Su Fengxi would have to go to jail for a minimum of three to ten years.
Even if the lawsuit was dismissed, she was a celebrity. For a celebrity, reputation and image were more important than life itself. How could she withstand such a stain on her character?
This time, Su Fengxi was truly afraid, panicked, and disoriented.
After getting her hands on such an extraordinary ability, she had never thought that she would fall—fall so hard and in such an embarrassing way!
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We’re sorry everyone, we couldn’t make last Saturday’s release, I can’t make it, last week is a hella busy week for me and maybe 2 weeks after, so, perhaps the release will be late again but we’ll try our best to not miss any~
Thank you for your understanding 
Hmph, how does such an evil woman get that type of insane ability? Her heart is cruel and selfish!
Thank you for the chapter~!
Translator we need chapters we dont care if you’re busy.
Please be polite and do not use ‘we’. RL is more important and it’s okay to be busy! We aren’t entitled to have more chapters.
What the hell? You can’t just dismiss the translators rights and personal life as unimportant! I love this novel so much, but it’s more important for the translator to be healthy and take breaks if needed. Please don’t use the “royal we” next time.
thank you for the chapter, take care of yourself and don’t worry! will FJ remain as an actor?
Thank you very much!;)♡♡♡♡
Its okay translator sama.
Also I miss Bai Mu a little. Wonder if his luck is still there.
You deserve it, SF
That woman even dared to give the fault to FJL? Just how stupid and hateful is she??
Frozenmirage-san, don’t worry!! Think about yourself first!!
Thank you for the chapter!!! ❤️❤️
That woman even dared to give the fault to FJL? Just how stupid and hateful is she??
Frozenmirage-san, don’t worry!! Think about yourself first!!
Thank you for the chapter!!! ❤️❤️
??? I don’t know why I commented twice
Thanks for the chapter!
Poor Zhao Wenyan. This has to be pretty embarrassing for him, too. He really hates his ex.
‘After getting her hands on such an extraordinary ability’ Eh what’s the exact nature of the ability though? and how did she get it?
FJL may not be the only one with cultivation… maybe someone is “blessing” others with certain abilities
The netizens brains are too shallow. They believe everything they read.
Thanks for the chapter!
Yes get slapped hard SFX!! I wonder what will happen to FJL since he doesn’t want to stay in the entertainment circle.
Thanks for the chapter! Take care of yourself and take breaks! Don’t burn yourself out! I rather you take longer than stress yourself out while translating.
Don’t worry about it, FM! Take your time, we can wait as long as you need. Your mental health comes before translations <3
That was…intense.
I almost forgot to breathe for the entire chapter.
Thank u for the translation.
Thanks for the chapter! I hope they explain her gold finger in more detail… but she sounds like a truly dreadful person.
What an amazing novel! I’ve read everything that this wonderful team translated in one sitting, and I want more! Thank you so much for you hard work!
Who’s the ML?
Dayyyymmmmm I have to reread this mini arc. Soooo satisfying!!! Thank you for the translations!!
So refreshing!
i reread cuz it felt good for her to finally fail but did she make a deal with the deal or something
Take care of yourself first! Taking a breather and sorting out matters is perfectly okay!!! Btw, still rooting for Song Rui for being the ML. I don’t know what it is about him, but he just seems to click for MC to me. Though I’m a multi-shipper, so I would be ok with any of them as long as the MC was happy and it wasn’t a toxic relationship. Thank you for your amazing work, and I hope everything gets sorted soon!!
The next page n content page is missing in this chapter might want to fix it
Okay but… She really just made up a whole new story, commented some sad emojis and her brain dead fans were so convinced by this that they didn’t even hesitate to attack my beloved MC on the spot?? Shameless! They are all hiding in shame now and make sure you don’t show yourself again ರ_ರ