Chapter 1417: Chapter 737: Empress
Zhou Yun’s latest work "Four Killers" is still showing, and although its daily box office ranking has fallen outside the top ten, it’s still in the screening period.
The director of this movie, Hou Mengjie, suddenly forwarded Li Rui’s Weibo and posted three "hugging" emoji figures, which piqued people’s imagination.
Does Hou Mengjie not know that Li Rui is insulting Zhou Yun?
Or, does Hou Mengjie know full well that Li Rui is insulting Zhou Yun, yet still chose to forward this Weibo?
If it’s the latter, then Hou Mengjie’s attitude deserves exploration.
Hou Mengjie has worked with Zhou Yun before.
Hou Mengjie forwarding a Weibo condemning Zhou Yun at this time — could it be that he was also snubbed by Zhou Yun during their collaboration?
This is a very easy thought for people to have.
Otherwise, why would a director who worked with Zhou Yun forward content that is detrimental to her?
Many people are leaving comments under Hou Mengjie’s Weibo, asking if he is supporting Li Rui and expressing his dissatisfaction with Zhou Yun.
Hou Mengjie hasn’t responded.
But that doesn’t stop everyone’s speculations.
Zhou Yun’s haters see Hou Mengjie’s Weibo as a treasure and exploit it to the fullest.
Various marketing accounts also jump in, competing with sensational headlines for traffic.
"Director of the hit movie ’Four Killers’ openly agrees with Zhou Yun’s suppression of new directors."
"Zhou Yun and Hou Mengjie directly clash — how will this film industry drama unfold?"
"Is ’Four Killers 2’ stillborn?!"
...
Zhou Yun was genuinely stunned.
She never would have thought that Hou Mengjie would be the third person to forward Li Rui’s Weibo.
During filming "Four Killers", Zhou Yun indeed didn’t particularly like Hou Mengjie’s shooting style, but she never played the diva.
Playing the diva was not a thing in any sense.
No matter how much she disliked Hou Mengjie’s shooting style, Zhou Yun was very cooperative with Hou Mengjie on set.
Among the four leading actors, Zhou Yun was even the most agreeable and cooperative one.
Why would Hou Mengjie do such a thing?
Zhou Yun believed she hadn’t upset Hou Mengjie.
She even wanted to directly call Hou Mengjie to ask what he was thinking.
Does he really think she is an actor who plays the diva?
"Do you have any grudges with Hou Mengjie?" Song Chi asked her the first question when he called.
Zhou Yun wore a look of innocence, saying, "No, I didn’t even know I had any grudges with him, nor why he did this."
"Then someone must have approached him and convinced him to do this," Song Chi calmly said, "No matter who comes forward to criticize you now, don’t confront them head-on, especially Hou Mengjie, who only forwarded Li Rui’s Weibo without saying anything. Three hug emojis can’t mean anything. Ultimately, he can still step forward to clarify that this isn’t his view. But responding to him before he explains further makes it easy for people to catch hold of your words."
"Hmm, I don’t plan on dealing with him," Zhou Yun said. "It’s just that if reporters ask me about it, I haven’t thought of how to respond yet."
"Just say you don’t know, you know nothing," Song Chi said. "I’ve heard some rumors, someone wants to use this event to consolidate the authority of directors, someone is targeting you, trying to pull you down from the pedestal. It’s very complicated. This issue gets bigger and bigger, if handled carelessly, it can be easily exploited."
"Hmm."
"Fortunately, Director Kang trusts you very much; he has called several friends, asking everyone to protect you."
Zhou Yun was surprised.
"Director Kang?"
"Someone told me Director Kang used his connections to ask everyone to protect an actress like you who has been seriously acting, an actress who best represents our generation of young actors," Song Chi chuckled, "Now Director Kang values you more than me, alas, I once thought I was Director Kang’s favorite young actor."
Zhou Yun: "That’s certainly not possible."
She breathed a sigh of relief.
"I will be careful, don’t worry about me, I’ll remain silent, unless Li Rui says something again, I won’t stay quiet. I don’t care about others’ attitudes unless they outrightly slander me," Zhou Yun said, "Sister Lan will handle the PR for this issue, besides my top priority is figuring out what’s going on between Li Rui and Seapool Film and Television."
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