The Villain and the Cannon Fodder’s Mother

Chapter 74 – A few other tourists that were also from their home country lifted up their cellphones and started editing the video clips that they had taken stealthily (2)

Meng Yan’s message on WeChat was posted immediately after Channel 2’s official announcement.

The closeness in the timing of the announcement and his post gave the feeling that there was a coordinated effort behind them. That left a lot of the netizens speechless.

Yet the issue did not end right here.

Quite contrarily, a new wave of public opinion had taken shape.

Channel 2 had already had an agreement with Meng Yan to have him on the show, but he decided against it at the last minute, stating that it was some sort of personal reasons. What could that possibly mean?

Some more detail-oriented netizens related this with Lin Yiyi’s WeChat post from two days ago. When the two messages were put side by side, it wasn’t difficult to figure out what had transpired.

For the longest time, Meng Yan’s ex-wife had been a low-key foodie for a long time prior and posted only pictures of delectable food without even so much as a caption. Her random WeChat message the other day had stirred up quite a bit of discussion among the crowd.

Coupled that with the guest spot that was also a done deal but was switched overnight. Who’d believe that Lin Yiyi had nothing to do with that?

Most importantly, some of Meng Yan’s star friends had leaked that his ex-wife was the one who had the custody of their two children. Meng Yan needed to have her approval just to visit his children, let alone taking one of them onto a show.

Now the bee hives had been disturbed completely.

“This was plenty obvious. Lin Yiyi wouldn’t let Meng Yan go onto the show with his child. Y’all should bathe and turn in. The official announcement was out so Meng Yan is for sure not going to be on the show.”

“Why was it that that woman was involved in just about anything? Can’t she just be nice for a change and do something actually nice?”

“Be reasonable. When I saw her WeChat message on the top search list, I was so happy for my Yan-ge, thinking that he could finally be rid of that woman. I didn’t expect to run into this after all was said and done.”

“Okay, so why does she have custody of the children? Yan-ge is still the father of the children. Who is she to say what he can or cannot do?”

Normally, topics online would follow a certain course, yet this one continued to escalate, even though neither one of the parties involved were in the country.

Inside the CEO’s office at Shengshi Entertainment, Xiang Liuyue and the managers of two other departments were reporting their progress when they were interrupted by the CEO.

“Exactly what was going on with that show?”

Lu Xun’s job was closely tied to the entertainment circle. He had found a while ago that a show that his company was involved in had stirred up a lot of public opinion. “Haven’t we already switched out the guest a long time ago?”

The few managers exchanged looks with each other, and Xiang Liuyue quickly responded to his inquiry, “The show had already started filming. They must just be drumming up publicity for next month’s release. But without Meng Yan on the show, its popularity just might drop steeply.”

She didn’t exactly make that up. She merely mentioned the possibility of that happening…

Xiang Liuyue stuck her tongue out to herself.

After all, the show was still recruiting for advertisers. There were still possibilities of other advertisers joining in the middle of the show. Granted, it was also possible for some of the existing advertisers to pull out.

“Have him drop this issue. Manager Xiang, you go follow up with him.”

All the talk about Meng Yan from the beginning was a hope to use the film emperor’s fans to drum up publicity of the show. Now that they knew for a fact that he would not be on the show, they must stop spending more resources on associating him with the show.